{"id":1535,"date":"2011-10-28T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T22:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2012-09-12T23:27:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T04:27:36","slug":"computer-cluster-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1535","title":{"rendered":"Computer cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_cluster\">Computer cluster &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <strong>computer cluster<\/strong> is a group of linked <a title=\"Computer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer\">computers<\/a>, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other through fast <a title=\"Local area network\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_area_network\">local area networks<\/a>. Clusters are usually deployed to improve performance and availability over that of a single computer, while typically being much more cost-effective than single computers of comparable speed or availability.<sup id=\"cite_ref-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_cluster#cite_note-0\"><span>[<\/span>1<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now I will put together clusters for high availability and load balancing.\u00a0 This is where VMs come in handy.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I\u00a0 prefer loosely coupled clusters, clusters where individual nodes are separated on different power grids.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always nice to have a succinct definition handy to stay focused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer cluster &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=1535\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[51,114,261,62],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-clustering","tag-computer-architecture","tag-definition","tag-high-availability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}