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Visiting the Server Farm Courtesy of Webopedia.com: A server farm is a group of networked servers that are housed in one location. A server farm streamlines internal processes by distributing the workload between the individual components of the farm and expedites computing processes by harnessing the power of multiple servers. The farms rely on load-balancing software that accomplishes such tasks as tracking demand for processing power from different machines, prioritizing the tasks and scheduling and rescheduling them depending on priority and demand that users put on the network. homepage.mac.com /amcclenahan/VisMajor_v1/C1366740696/E1870922415   (278 words)

Server farm Definition | Computer Dictionary | Define meaning of Server farm Server farms are typically co-located with the network switches and/or routers which enable communication between the different parts of the cluster and the users of the cluster. Server farms are increasingly being used instead of or in addition to mainframe computers by large enterprises, although server farms do not as yet reach the same reliability levels as mainframes. Because of the sheer number of computers in large server farms, the failure of individual machines is a commonplace event, and the management of large server farms needs to take this into account, by providing support for redundancy, automatic failover, and rapid reconfiguration of the server cluster. www.cpupedia.com /definition/server+farm.aspx   (361 words)

Server farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) These servers are used to deliver the web-based content and applications that IRIS serves its clients. All servers, including at the ISP and within our offices, are continuously monitored by IRIS' network operations team. Server monitoring takes place on a 24 x 7 basis, and any issue in any of the servers is immediately flagged and action taken. www.irisindia.net /serverf_farm.htm   (114 words)

Publishing Applications in a Server Farm Users who connect to multiple applications served from different servers in the server farm will have active sessions on more than one server without knowing or needing to know which server is providing the applications. Server farms make network administration easier because, from one server, you can manage all the applications that the servers in a server farm publish, and switch the focus from server to server. Because server farms depend on one source of authentication (e.g., the domain controller if you organize the servers in a domain), server farms with more than one server must be organized into domains, and workgroup-based server farms can contain only one server. www.windowsitpro.com /Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7078&pg=2   (1423 words)

Server Farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) A server farm is where two or more servers are configured to act as a single system. However, a server farm requires a great deal of technical knowledge if the system is to be properly set-up and maintained. A server farm improves the reliability of Internet-based systems because it eliminates many of the single points of failure that are possible in a single server system. www.hostingguidebook.com /server-farm.html   (298 words)

server farm - a Whatis.com definition - see also: Web farm, Web server farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) A server farm is a group of computers acting as servers and housed together in a single location. A Web server farm can be either (1) a Web site that has more than one server, or (2) an Internet service provider (ISP) that provides Web hosting services using multiple servers. The servers may have individual operating systems or a shared operating system and may also be set up to provide load balancing when there are many server requests. whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci213707,00.html   (321 words)

Google - How It Works - M/Cyclopedia of New Media These server farms consist of a large number of commodity level computers running Linux based systems that operate with GFS, or the Google file system, with the largest of these farms have over 1000 storage nodes and over 300 TB of disk storage (Ghemawat, S., Gobioff, H., and Leung, S. T., 2003, pp 2). Residing in the document servers is a copy of the World Wide Web, from which the summary of the web page’s contents are then retrieved from the servers. Google’s servers are populated by Google’s web crawler the Googlebot, which moves from site to site on the internet, downloading copies of web pages and saves them in the Google index (also known as the cache) for future reference (Google Guide, 2003). wiki.media-culture.org.au /index.php/Google-How_It_Works   (933 words)

InternetWeek | The Business and Technology of the Internet | http://internetweek.cmp.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) A well-run server farm, whether it's a Web farm supporting e-commerce or a server farm supporting the corporation's intranet or a combination of the two, is vital to a smooth-run business. The business depends on the Web servers being up all the time and running smoothly, or the network manager has to explain to an executive that has the 'Net religion why their e-commerce site is having problems. Currently the server farm is still small, with only thirteen servers, but the network manager expects it to grow at a rapid rate over the next two years. internetweek.cmp.com /marketing/webserver_intro.html   (1254 words)

Server farm focus Server compute farms are making their way into large manufacturing environments for electronic design automation and to more quickly process and complete tasks. The idea of teaming the processors of server systems into a single network entity and extracting the computation resources from them has long been popular in research and academic institutions. Server farms are able to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, utilizing processing power that would otherwise sit idle. www.networkworld.com /newsletters/servers/2000/0619serv1.html   (613 words)

Foundry Networks : Solutions : Application Note : Monitoring Server Farm Health Using ServerIron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) If the server does not send a bind reply by the time the LDAP keepalive retries expires, the ServerIron retries the health check up to the number of times configured (the default is two retries). If the server is authoritative for the zone and successfully responds to the SOA request, the server passes the health check. If the server does not reply with the requested IP address or zone name, the ServerIron retries the health check up to the number of times configured (the default is two retries). www.foundrynet.com /solutions/appNotes/HealthChecks.html   (2434 words)

What is server farm? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary A server farm is a group of networked servers that are housed in one location. Today, more and more companies are utilizing server farms as a way of handling the enormous amount of computerization of tasks and services that they require. Four brief case studies from Computerworld.com demonstrate that managing server farms can be a much more complex task than running a mainframe data center ever was. www.webopedia.com /TERM/S/server_farm.html   (468 words)

Central Analysis Server Farm The Central Analysis Server (CAS) farms are one of the two types of Linux farms at the RCF. The CAS farms are a mix of interactive and batch systems that are available to general users at the RCF. To facilitate the optimal use of the farm and provide a snapshot of farm status, information of about the performance and health of the farms are provided in the CAS system status web pages. www.rhic.bnl.gov /RCF/UserInfo/Facilities/LinuxFarm/CAS   (181 words)

Server farm/clustering Each server, for space, bandwidth, and resource reasons would hold only say 30 "rooms." These "rooms" would allow the company to have voice chat, stream video, share word documents and powerpoints, etc. I would limit each server to say 30 of these rooms. You would most probably want to keep the load on each server about even, and if one server fails, you would want to isolate that one and distribute the load equally on the others, and you would also want to make it expandable. Then, on a request for a room to be allocated, the master server would take the server with the lowest percentage used and allocate the room to that server. www.theadminzone.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6440   (1381 words)

Get IT Done: Use Visio to create at-a-glance documentation of your server farm I've used Visio to diagram everything from a basic server farm to a fiber network diagram for a 60-building college campus network that directly traced every single strand of fiber-optic cable from its origin to its final destination. Server farms are becoming more and more common and run in a variety of environments. Over the years that I've been managing and documenting servers, I've gotten some excellent tips from mentors, and I've developed a system for diagramming and documenting server farms that is easy to maintain and provides a quick view of the infrastructure. www.techrepublic.com /article.jhtml?id=r00220020329low01.htm   (850 words)

Server Farm with Multiple Host Names Deployment When you decide to implement a server farm, it is generally because you want to support a large-scale Web environment. For better security in your server farm, it is recommended that you use Windows NT authentication, rather than SQL Server authentication, for connections between your front-end Web servers and the back-end database servers. For a server farm environment, you must use the command-line administration tool to create the configuration database rather than HTML Administration. www.microsoft.com /resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/stsc03.mspx   (3464 words)

Server Farm - Reg. Form Help If the server is not registered with the Hostmaster, the Server Name should be a reasonably short, unique name. If the server is registered, then the Server Name is the most significant portion of the registered name. This is the name used when the server was registered with the hostmaster. www.cit.cornell.edu /services/serverfarm/reg-help.html   (142 words)

Compaq server farm feeds university's IT - TechUpdate - ZDNet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The solution was a 16-unit Windows 2000-based server farm. Housed at the university's headquarters in College Station, Texas, the server farm is a mix of Compaq ProLiant DL360 and DL380 servers, and is home to the Microsoft Visual Basic-written class registration system. Automatic failover capabilities are another reason for the server farm approach. techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846963,00.html   (562 words)

Wikimedia servers - Meta The names of the Florida servers are primarily based on famous historical encyclopedists, while the Kennisnet and Yahoo! Server names should be linked to individual status pages (see http://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Servers). The Apache servers accept requests from users, get data from the database if necessary, and format the requests back to the users, by running the MediaWiki software implemented in PHP with Turck MMCache PHP cache (our experience). meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Wikimedia_servers   (2221 words)

Wyse: Citrix Hones Terminal Server's Farm Skills Terminal Server for Windows isn't the only game in town anymore for managing large Windows server farms. MetaFrame is not designed to replace Terminal Server but runs with it to extend the capabilities of Windows servers. Installation on the main server was a bit tedious; we had to run six CDs to install the necessary software for user restrictions and application management. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdwys/is_200105/ai_ziff128506   (780 words)

Architecting Your Telco Server Farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Your telco servers need to be extremely reliable and extra rugged to give customers the uninterrupted service they expect. Built to fit standard 19-inch racks, the pSeries 640 is well suited for rapid horizontal scaling, so you can increase server capacity as needed. To deliver the highest possible network reliability and availability, telco servers must be able to survive such stressful environmental conditions. www-1.ibm.com /servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/tour/briefs/telco_server.html   (457 words)

Fixing Server Farm Problems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) One of the servers in our large server farm crashed, and we replaced it with a new machine, taking the opportunity to give the server a new name and upgrade its application. Your problem is that when you have a ghost Registry entry in either the first or the second key without corresponding application information in the third key, the server farm sees the application but doesn't know how to edit it or use it. It was relatively painless except for one server which failed to start IMA upon install, and rolledback (error 26005). www.windowsitpro.com /Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8862   (794 words)

Cisco Enterprise: Server Farm The highly resilient server farm represents a building block in Cisco's multi-layer campus design which allows for scalable, fault-tolerant, and centralized connectivity for enterprise servers. The server farm design addresses multiple connectivity options in both speed and redundancy to provide a flexible network deployment. These tools bundled with a proven scalable server farm design offer the customer a highly resilient and scalable enterprise server farm opportunity. www.cisco.com /warp/public/779/largeent/design/server_farm.html   (191 words)

Server farm Server farms are collections of computers (at least over 10) working together or in conjunction with one another. One of the largest, if not THE largest server farms is maintained by the popular search engine Google. At last report Google had over 10,000 computers in its server farm. www.xmission.com /~comphope/jargon/s/servfarm.htm   (68 words)

Server Farm This growing data center has a combination of 10 Sun and PC servers in its configuration. In this diagram, a server farm has been organized into three groups of servers: A, B and C. Each of these groups can be monitored and controlled by an AutoBoot Commander 4xP station. Outside the server farm, the whole system can be accessed from the system administrator's office using another 4xP station, D. As the server farm grows, simply add more servers and 4xP control stations. kolarsystems.com /serverfarm.shtml   (136 words)

cluster farm linux server Search : Products, Services, Companys, Resources, News, Information about cluster farm linux ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Also referred to as server cluster, computer farm or ranch. A server farm is a group of networked... ...as a server farm when the computers are used to mimic the operations of a single server machine. www.byvalor.com /directory/server_farm_index.html   (429 words)

Huge server farm proposed for San Jose - 2001-03-22   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) What is being billed as the largest server farm in the world is heading for city approval in San Jose. The server farm proposed by U.S. DataPort of San Jose would cost about $1.2 billion to construct, encompassing 10 buildings on a 170 acre campus and would handle as much as 15 percent of the world's entire Internet traffic. Server farms are concentrations of computers and related equipment which handle Internet-related chores. sanjose.bcentral.com /sanjose/stories/2001/03/19/daily51.html   (552 words)

Microsoft Office Assistance: Deploying a Small Server Farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Configure the domain account that you added to the server farm computers to have the Security Administrators and Database Creators server roles on this SQL Server instance. Specifying an account that is a member of the local Administrators group on the server on which you are installing SharePoint Portal Server is not recommended. If you change this account by using the Configure Server Farm Account Settings page, the rights are not revoked automatically for the previous account. office.microsoft.com /en-us/assistance/HA011603941033.aspx   (2157 words)

Linux PR: Linuxlab's new load-balancing software lifts server farm management to a new plateau. While other virtual server solutions rely on VS TUN to tunnel across the Internet and assign user requests to a host server on another LAN, Linuxlab uses its own solution, VS ASF (advanced server farm), to assign transactions. While VS TUN permits servers to be on any network with an Internet connection, instead of residing in the same room with the load balancer, the response for service from a host must travel back along the same path through the load balancer as the original request for service. However, all servers using this strategy must be on the same LAN. linuxpr.com /releases/2417.html   (530 words)

InternetWeek | The Business and Technology of the Internet | http://internetweek.cmp.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The index of the Web is broken down into parts, with each section of the index distributed to a cluster of about 40 servers for redundancy and failover. The servers are connected on 100-Mbps links within the racks; gigabit links connect the racks to one another. Google distributes its storage among the servers rather than use a centralized storage area network because it's cheaper and because a large RAID array would be a single point of failure, Brin said. www.internetwk.com /lead/lead060100.htm   (1424 words)

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