Grid vs. Others: Computing     Last updated on           , a full moon day

Also see: Bandwidth vs. Throughput; Computers; Server; Synchronization;   In (data storage | data management | data center | data allocation), regardless of whether grid or others, data-access-time, response time, seek-time, ... should be considered the same. But the following table contains the differences:

Grid = Info + Network + Server + Storage AND Others

Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ...

Blade Computing

One rack may contain several trays; and each tray may contain one motherboard; and each motherboard may contain several processors and memory-modules;

However those motherboards may share the same cooling-system, the same power-supply, and the same storage; In common, trays are vertical slots alike, and hot-swappable;

 
Centralized data: grid is more centralized than cluster; Centralized design Cluster Computing

Centralized data: cluster is less centralized than grid; however, several computers can be gathered to become one single entity of clustering, and then the clusters are used to compute load-balancing, fault-tolerance, and parallel-processing;
Historical milestone: trend after year 2000 [ after 2544 in Buddhist Calendar ]; however theoretical analysis was in 1960s; Cluster Computing

Historical milestone: trend before AND after year 2000; Cluster can be categorized into: application-server-cluster, file-server-cluster, FTP-service-cluster, IIS-service-cluster, print-server-cluster, virtual-server-cluster, SQL server [i.e. MS SQL Server 2005], ...;

1000 Mbps bandwidth Ethernet Computing

10/100/1000 Mbps bandwidth in 2003; In the near future, 10Gbps will be available soon;
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... Fibre Channel Computing

While data-communicating, full-duplex serial medium is used;

FlexFrame technology; TRIOLE deployable; Fujitsu

 
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... Infiniband Computing

 
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... LDAP Computing

LDAP provides better portability;
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... NAS Computing

File sharing; In common, NAS allows hot-swappable hard-disks without re-booting system;
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... Node Computing

 
Its filter supports: DAFS, iSCSI, NFS, ..., protocols; NetApp applications deployable NetApp

 
Oracle Database 10g deployable Oracle

 
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... RAID Computing

 
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... SAN Computing

 
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... SMP Computing

 
Storage-protocol: CIFS, DAFS, FCP, HTTP, iSCSI, NFS;  Storage-protocol: ...
Architect's choice to combine the mixture of ... VPN Computing

 
In 2004, primary grid system time factors are Response-time, and Up-time; Other *time are also considerable;

(OGSA (GLOBUS grid computing (OS (Linux) (Unix)) (Communication_library (High_speed_communication)) (Parallel_processing (MPI) (Local_sys_manager)) (Resource_management_job_control (Scheduler(NQSII) (LSF) (SCORE) (SGE) (CONDOR))) (Remote_job_control (Globus_toolkit) (OGSA) (GRAM) (GSI) (MDS) (GASS) (GridFTP)) (Blobus_tool (MPICH-G2) (GridRPC) (CONDOR-G) (Grid_sys_manager)) (Application_interfaces)))

Remark: It is almost impossible to know all Right pane, Left pane, and Menu, for example, if someone knows a Menu, he/she might not know Right pane and Left pane, vice versa, if someone knows Left pane, he/she might not know a Menu, and so on; Trillions dollars businesses, operated by computers in 21st century, therefore, it is good not to know all 3 differences;

 

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