other clusters

• load balancing clusters

  • large web/ftp servers, streaming media servers
  • large data bases or search engines (e.g. Google)
  • terminal servers (e.g. Linux Virtual Server)

• high availability clusters

  • for reliability and availability of resources
  • always on: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • heartbeat, automatic failover

• computational clusters

  • mainly for computational intensive problems