From 11d2acdd14ac833a02e94b5b1b84ce9f558bc6eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyndon Coghill Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:29:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Updating cluster computer slide presenter notes. Updating presenter notes for cluster computer that were duplicated from the "cloud computing" slides. Attempting to address issue [419](https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/hpc-intro/issues/419). --- files/jargon.html | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/files/jargon.html b/files/jargon.html index 6a47ef45..9c90a2b7 100644 --- a/files/jargon.html +++ b/files/jargon.html @@ -146,14 +146,10 @@ ??? -Cloud systems physically resemble clusters or supercomputers, but -with greater heterogeneity among components, and less coupling, often -without an interconnect at all. Cloud servers are generally accessed -by connecting to their services over the network. Multiple virtual -machines may reside on individual physical machines. Typical tasks -are driven by user connections from the outside to the various "front -end" services (e.g. web sites) which pass traffic on to the "back -end" servers (e.g. databases) to present results to users. +A collection of standalone computers that are networked together. The will +frequently have software installed that allow the coordinated running of other +software across all of these computers. This allows these networked computers +to work together to accomplish computing tasks faster. ---