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

Mariano Martinez Peck marianopeck at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 10:31:39 PST 2013


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Martin McClure <
martin.mcclure at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> On 11/15/2013 09:59 AM, Dale K. Henrichs wrote:
> >
> > 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 ...
> >
> > 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.
>
>
ok. Just to see if I understand...What they run in each node are gems
right? So each node will have 1 SPC and many gems, and all those gems/SPC
of all nodes will be talking (wire in the middle) to the one stone in some
node?




> Regards,
>
> -Martin
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