[Glass] [GS/SS Beta] Scale to multiple nodes sharing a DB?

[Martin McClure]

On 11/15/2013 09:59 AM, Dale K. Henrichs wrote:
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> Our customers tend to towards larger and larger SPCs and more and more cpus on a single machine for the abosulte fastest performance ... As is always the case the fastest access paths are always memory to memory if you have to go over a wire or hit disk then the performance impact is not transparent ...
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> So in the end, Norbert is correct that there are limitations to what can be achieved by adding multiple machines as opposed to increasing the size of a given machine ... but in the end it does depend upon the characteristics of the application and the size of the working set required ....

As a counter-example, there are people running successfully with
hundreds of nodes per stone. Eventually your network becomes the
bottleneck -- exactly when that happens is very application-specific.

Regards,

-Martin