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What Are the Basic Things About the Computer Clustering
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description: I like building robots. I love the challenge of working their electronics. I love designing them. I love everything about them, and I made a few over the years. With some of my robots, I used sounds as the controller. With others, I used standard remote controls. Everything about them is great until they break down. Then, I have to hunt and test every component to find the one piece that needs adjustment or replacement. It’s then I wish I had clustered their electronics. While robots are a special case, you can find the same problems in any electronic device including your computer services. This is why most companies cluster their data centers these days. Clustering is using a network of computers and redundant interconnections to form a single, powerful, highly available system. This ensures that your critical data, processes, and systems remain active and available without interruption even when you switch machines or something unexpected happens. What is clustering? Derived from a DARPA program from the 1980s, computer clusters have become the dominant high performance IT solution for most companies today. In fact, according to Top500.org, which tracks the world’s most powerful computers, 70% of the fastest computer systems in the world are now clusters. What was once just a tool for geeks and technophiles is now the de facto standard for all information technology environments, and this development gave us all the other technologies we take for granted such as more powerful processors, higher fidelity computer models, and improved storage systems designed to service these clusters. Basically, computer clusters are nothing more than two or more computers interconnected to each other to act like one big computer system for availability, higher scalability or both. Implemented through combinations of hardware, operating systems, middleware, systems management and applications, these clusters operate much like virtual machines giving the illusion that there is only…
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date: 2026-07-30T10:55:44-00:00