Types of Cluster Computing
Understand various cluster computing types used to improve performance and reliability in cloud systems. Learn how load balancing, high availability, and computing power clusters operate and how they can enhance cloud applications.
Types of clusters
There are different types of computer clusters. Let's discuss them and understand their use.
Load balancing
With load balancing clusters, the workload is distributed to multiple nodes so that one node is not overwhelmed. As a result, performance is not decreased even with increased load. For example, if we have a website serving a large user base, we can put it under a load balancer and use multiple nodes to serve the users. When traffic comes, the cluster checks and routes the traffic to one of the available nodes. Different routing algorithms can be used to decide where traffic should go. One of the commonly used algorithms is the Round Robin scheduling algortihm.
With load balancing clusters, we try to achieve scalability, so we can ...