> SETI isn't really a grid. It's just few specific servers that > feed data to lots of "clients". > > Here's a quite fine quote from gridcomputing.com: > > Grid is a type of parallel and distributed system that > enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of > geographically distributed "autonomous" resources dynamically > at runtime depending on their availability, capability, > performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements. > > Tanel. Which in Oracle terms probably means (semi)-intelligent RAC. It would probably need an new optimizer/job scheduler to work out which node would process which load best in near real time. Also the acronym would be I-RAC which might not be too good.
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