Scalability Terminology: Farms, Clones, Partitions, Packs, RACS and RAPS
arXiv:cs/9912010
Abstract
Defines a vocabulary for scaleable systems: Geoplexes, Farms, Clones, RACS, RAPS, clones, partitions, and packs and dicusses the design tradeoffs of using clones, partitons, and packs.
MSword version of file at http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/papers/MS_TR_99_85_Scalability_Terminolog y.doc