“All your eggs, one basket: Does this make sense?”
“A lot of people seem to think that it’s the be-all and end-all
of high-end server computing. In other words, if you want
super-powered servers, you must be using SMP.
“What nonsense!
“SMP is just another scheme for getting the maximum amount of
scalability and performance from one box. It’s got some things
going for it… It’s also almost the only show in town for NT to
get multiple CPUs pulling together…”
“But, say that customers really want more than a hot name…
maybe resellers should point them in the direction of an older,
safer technology: clustering…”