[HECnet] Getting a virtual cluster connected

[Cory Smelosky]

On 25 Dec 2012, at 15:06, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 12/25/2012 03:02 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Ah.   Is any sort of encryption done for cluster-over-IP?

Oh heck no.   That sort of overhead's resultant latency would destroy
the performance of a cluster on all but the very fastest of machines.

Ah, right, I'm forgetting that clustering sends a lot of data.


Further, most VMS clusters are built with machines in the same
datacenter.   It's not generally a wide-area thing.

Mmmm, true. Clustering is generally used for practical purposes and not my crazy experiments.


                    -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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