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Oracle 10g RAC Grid, Services & Clustering

Author: Murali Vallath
Publisher: Digital Press
Keywords: services, clustering, grid, rac, 10g, oracle
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2006-06-08
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 1555583210
ISBN-13: 9781555583217

Grid architecture is Oracle’s strategy for high-end computing and RAC is the stepping stone into this arena. This book focuses on current technology including all valid RAC features up through Oracle Database 10g Release 2, with a primary focus on deploying it in a high-end grid environment. The book discusses this technology at length which users will find beneficial when researching, implementing or monitoring a RAC environment. The author covers workshop implementation of services and the distribution of workload across instances, with threshold definitions and the new load balancing

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MySQL Clustering

Authors:Alex Davies, Harrison Fisk,
Publisher: MySQL Pre
Keywords: clustering, mysql
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-03-30
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0672328550
ISBN-13: 9780672328558

Clustering is the final component of MySQL that makes it truly enterprise-level and able to compete fully with proprietary databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. The increased number of high-demand, high-productivity corporations and institutions choosing MySQL, including MIT, the Department of Homeland Security, NASA, and Nokia, to name a few, need the benefit of clustering databases for high performance and scalability. MySQL AB has stepped up to the plate to offer advanced, high-availability, reliable clustering. As this demand has increased, so has the need for information.

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Clustering (IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence)

Authors:Rui Xu, Don Wunsch,
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Pre
Keywords: computational, intelligence, series, press, ieee, clustering
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2008-10-24
List price: $122.50
ISBN-10: 0470276800
ISBN-13: 9780470276808

This is the first book to take a truly comprehensive look at clustering. It begins with an introduction to cluster analysis and goes on to explore: proximity measures; hierarchical clustering; partition clustering; neural network-based clustering; kernel-based clustering; sequential data clustering; large-scale data clustering; data visualization and high-dimensional data clustering; and cluster validation. The authors assume no previous background in clustering and their generous inclusion of examples and references help make the subject matter comprehensible for readers of varying levels and

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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing Us Apart

Author: Bill Bishop
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: tearing, apart, american, minded, clustering, sort
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-05-11
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0547237723
ISBN-13: 9780547237725

In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort." Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by region or by state, but by city and even neighborhood. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhood (and church and news show) compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred that people don’t know and can’t understand those who live a fe