Can these drive E-Commerce ?
Clusters are already in use for web serving, web-hosting, and number of other Internet applications including E-commerce
- scalability, availability, performance, reliable-high performance-massive storage and database support.
- Attempts to support online detection of cyber attacks (through data mining) and control
Hyperclusters and the GRID:
- Support for transparency in (secure) Site/Data Replication for high availability and quick response time (taking site close to the user).
- Compute power from hyperclusters/Grid can be used for data mining for cyber attacks and fraud detection and control.
- Helps to build Compute Power Market, ASPs, and Computing Portals.