Cluster Computing: High-Performance, High-Availability, and High-Throughput Processing on a Network of Computers
Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya, Hossein Pourreza, Rasit Eskicioglu, Peter C. J. Graham, Frank Sommers · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
The first inspiration for cluster computing was developed in the 1960s by IBM as an alternative of linking large mainframes to provide a more cost effective form of commercial parallelism [1]. At that time, IBM's Houston Automatic Spooling Priority (HASP) system and its successor, Job Entry System (JES) allowed the distribution of work to a user-constructed mainframe cluster. IBM still supports clustering of