[sc34wg3] N0391-0394: New SAM/XTM documents

Robert Barta sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:53:07 +1000


On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:00:35PM +0200, Jan Algermissen wrote:
> Robert Barta wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 07:05:52PM +0200, Jan Algermissen wrote:
> > > >    - large scale deployment
> > >
> > > I am curious: what is 'large scale' for you?
> > 
> > Jan,
> > 
> > Different TMs have different connectivity, but a rather arbitrary
> > ballpark figure for me is >100000 sparsely connected topics
> > (distributed over a cluster of 5 machines). This is my goal for this
> > year. But I still have this daytime job... ;-)
> 
> Ah, ok.   But then....why would you distribute 100.000 topics over
> 5 machines? 

Uh, I want to keep my Linux cluster busy :-). Seriously, the
application I am thinking about will need a cluster, so distributed
processing is a must.

\rho