Question

Explain the similarities and differences between clusters, warehouse-scale computers, and
datacenters.

Answer 1

Clustering is the group of servers that are placed together such that they act as a single system. Clustering ensures fault tolerance and high availability to the infrastructure. Moreover, clustering enables the load balancing feature as well. Clustering is considered as the basic form on a individual level.

Warehouse scale computer: The WSC is the form of internet service which users use in order to search, browsing and performing could computing as well. WSC may looks like a large datacenter but their architecture is different from the actual datacenter. WSCs are the defendant of the super computer. And it act as a one giant machine to do the operation.

Datacenter: This is the place where all your server are placed and those contains the data of your infrastructure. In your datacenters all your machines are arranged in a clustered format and all the server along with backup data are kept. Datacenter provides fault tolerance as well as high availability.