Charting A Course Across The Scale-Up/Scale-Out Continuum

Content

• Section 1: The Changing Foundations of Scale-Out Computing
• Section 2: Blades as the New Scale-Out Design Center
• Section 3: The Blurring Line Between Scale-Out and Scale-Up Nodes
• Section 4: The Emergence of Intrinsically Scale-Up Workloads
• Section 5: Converting Scale-Up Workloads to Scale-Out-The Hard Way and The Easy Way
• Section 6: Transcending the Scale-Up/Scale-Out Debate
• List of Figures
  • Figure 1: Balancing the Scale-Up/ Scale-Out Scorecards
  • Figure 2: Evolution of Blade Server Design Centers
  • Figure 3: Oracle Real Application Cluster Architecture
  • Figure 4: The Scale-Out Workload Continuum
  • Figure 5: The Changing Mix of Scale-Out, Scale-Up and Scale-Across