Common Management Domain - IBM RS/6000 SP Handbook

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Figure 1-8 Common management domain
The following list shows benefits of AIX clustering:
Physical isolation between partitions
Can be used as fail-over for each other
Easy accounting for user departments
Economic solution for startup and growth (financial benefits of smaller
systems)
Upgrade hardware and software independently
Easier to adopt newer technology
Manage all systems from one console
The RS/6000 SP system, as an SP universal cluster, can implement any type of
the mentioned cluster computing models separately or together.
Referring the RS/6000 SP systems and the AIX clusters evolution, we mention
that:
The original AIX cluster was based on the RS/6000 SP systems (M/T 9076),
dated in 1993, and its code name is "Deep Blue."
The Clustered Enterprise Server system (M/T 7017 systems) is dated 2000, it
included up to 16 of S85, S80, S7A and S70 systems and its code name is
"Blue Hammer."
The Clustered Enterprise Server system (M/T 7026 systems) is dated 2001, it
is based on up to 32 of M80, 6H1 and H80 systems and its code name is
"Blue Hammer Jr."
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