Without getting into a religious debate about the terms "grid" and "cluster" I would suggest you could build a "grid" with Windows HPC Server.
The community I most often hear use the "grid" term is the computational finance community, where they talk about "compute grids" like HPC Server, and "data grids" which refer to the data backend for working with the cluster. The data grid will typically be a set of in-memory cache servers caching data from a database or file system.
In other communities the terms cluster and grid seem to be used interchangably.
ryanRyan Waite - Product Unit Manager - Windows HPC
Proposed as answer byRyan WaiteMonday, February 9, 2009 7:45 PM
Marked as answer byDon PatteeFriday, March 13, 2009 10:45 PM
Without getting into a religious debate about the terms "grid" and "cluster" I would suggest you could build a "grid" with Windows HPC Server.
The community I most often hear use the "grid" term is the computational finance community, where they talk about "compute grids" like HPC Server, and "data grids" which refer to the data backend for working with the cluster. The data grid will typically be a set of in-memory cache servers caching data from a database or file system.
In other communities the terms cluster and grid seem to be used interchangably.
ryanRyan Waite - Product Unit Manager - Windows HPC
Proposed as answer byRyan WaiteMonday, February 9, 2009 7:45 PM
Marked as answer byDon PatteeFriday, March 13, 2009 10:45 PM