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Questions tagged [distributed-computing]

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We have a primary database SQL Server 2022 Enterprise cluster using Always-On Activation Groups running in our domain and a small SQL Express 2022 running on a standalone Windows Server 2022 non-...
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The guy who administrates our cluster died suddenly and recently, so now we have to operate it ourselves until a new guy comes in. We want to change the hard runtime limit of a node on our cluster. ...
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I work in a research laboratory with multiple physical machines with different specifications. The machines have different CPUs (some Intel, some AMD), different RAM sizes, some have discrete GPUs, ...
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I have an enormous corpus of text data stored in millions of files on S3. It's very common that I want to perform some operation on every one of those files, which uses only that file and creates a ...
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(Sorry if this isn't the right forum. StackOverflow doesn't seem right, either. I thought there used to be a description on the home page saying what kind of questions were relevant but I can't find ...
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Me and a couple of friends are thinking of setting up a kubernetes cluster where our homeservers will act as the nodes. As our nodes will be spread out between our apartments I am worried this will ...
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I'm a user of Folding@home and like its ability to leverage idle machine to process tasks. I'd like to do something similar with my work where I can allow users to volunteer their machines and have a ...
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I am a sysadmin by trade, and I do what I do at work at home as well for fun. I have a Gentoo Linux laptop, Raspberry Pis running Raspian, a Gentoo server, ARM devices running Debian and have various ...
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we're looking for a server architecture that will allow for converting 1000 large images in 5 seconds. As a test, we ran some benchmarks using a 16 core server, using GNU Parallel to run 1,000 image ...
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I have an application running in 3 different datacenters that uses ZooKeeper for many tasks. Following the recommended practices, we have deployed three ZooKeeper ensembles where one datacenter ...
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My company has a big (relatively) computer farm, say, 100 physical servers (dual CPU hexacore e5 xeons with 160 Gb RAM) leased from some hardware provider (say Leaseweb or OVM) on monthly basis, means,...
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This is kind of a two part question. So I have a DigitalOcean Droplet in Toronto with a lamp stack on it (with a website of course). I want to be create a snapshot of that droplet and deploy a clone ...
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my client is using Magento for it's ecommerce global solution. Main country are US / EU / CN. For now only 1 VM in Italy, serving all traffic. I would like to create 3 VMs, one for each country, on ...
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I've got some desktop PCs available in my company since the last user hardware renewal and I would like to re-use them for a demo plaform. They are powerfull enought to emulate a few servers. I ...
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Context: I am building a mobile application that will let users apply advanced filters to their pictures. Since the processing can't be done on the phone, it will be offloaded to EC2 instances. I ...

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