> SETI isn't really a grid. It's just few specific servers that
> feed data to lots of "clients".
>
> Here's a quite fine quote from gridcomputing.com:
>
> Grid is a type of parallel and distributed system that
> enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of
> geographically distributed "autonomous" resources dynamically
> at runtime depending on their availability, capability,
> performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements.
>
> Tanel.
Which in Oracle terms probably means (semi)-intelligent RAC. It would
probably need an new optimizer/job scheduler to work out which node
would process which load best in near real time. Also the acronym would
be I-RAC which might not be too good.
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 14:12:19 CDT
