High Performance Commercial Computing Cluster - IBM RS/6000 SP Handbook

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Figure 1-7 High performance commercial computing cluster
Server Consolidation (applications are consolidated to reduce costs)
– Common Management Domain
• Consolidation of different workloads
• Heterogeneous building blocks
• Central management point-of control
• Consolidated, simplified management interface for multiple servers
Figure 1-8 on page 22 illustrates a common management domain.
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Chapter 1. Introduction