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

[Sam Hunting]

> 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.

So the fact of >100,000 sparsely connected topics does not create a
requirement (in your view) for a cluster? I think that's what Jan was
asking.



Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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