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A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
A group of expandable patterns on sprue and runners for casting purposes.
A group of objects gathered closely together.
Commercial definition: A collection of potentially distinct computers that are tightly coupled and share an address space. An example would be several SHV systems connected through SCI. Academic definition: Any collection of distinct computers that are connected and used as a parallel computer. Examples include Ethernet-connected workstation networks and rack-mounted workstations dedicated to parallel computing. See workstation farm and distributed computer.
A group of computers that work together to provide services. Example: Homer is a cluster of computers that provide email, file and print services.
A group of disk sectors. The operating system assigns a unique number to each cluster and then keeps track of files according to which clusters they use. Occasionally, the operating system marks a cluster as being used even though it is not assigned to any file. This is called a lost cluster. You can free up disk space by reassigning lost clusters, but you should first make sure that the clusters do not, in fact, contain valuable data. In DOS and Windows, you can find lost clusters with the Scandisk utility. DOS and Windows keep track of clusters with the File Allocation Table (FAT). The size of each cluster depends on the disk's partition size.
Group of compounds which are related by structural or behavioral properties. Organizing a set of compounds into clusters is often used in assessing the diversity of those compounds, or in developing SAR (structure-activity relationship) models.
Data is stored on disk in clusters. A cluster may be composed of one or more sectors and is the smallest unit of disk space for data storage.
The smallest unit of storage available for files.
The smallest unit of disk space that can be allocated to a file in a FAT file system. The size of a cluster is determined by the type of partition on which a file is located and the size of that partition. See: FAT file system, cluster size, partition size.
(1) A group of processors interconnected through a high speed network that can be used for high performance computing. (2) A group of jobs submitted from the same job command file. (3)A set of machines with something in common between them. This commonality could be that they are all backed up by one machine or they are all in the LoadLeveler administration file.
All meeting participants taken together
Grouping of peoples within each affinity bloc which are closely related peoples and, for strategic purposes, may be clustered together. These relationships are often based on a common identity of language and name, but sometimes on the basis of culture, religion, economy, or dominance of one group over another.
a grouping of congregational, intercongregational, and special units within the territory of a synodical women's organization; called conference in some synodical women's organizations
A group of sectors on a hard disk drive that is addressed as one logical unit by the operating system. It is also the smallest contiguous area that can be allocated for the storage of data even if the actual data require less storage.
(1) Enclosed lights used to illuminate the top of film and stage sets. (2) Group of speakers mounted in auditoriums, arenas, and theaters.
The allocation unit used by the filesystem (the "quantum" of data read from or written to the filesystem, similar to sector on the disk). Each file on the filesystem occupies zero or an integral number of clusters (with a few exceptions). Cluster size is an integer multiple of the sector size. Disk ( or Drive, Physical Disk, Physical Drive) - physical device used to store data, typical example being an "IBM/Hitachi Deskstar hard drive". Other media types like Iomega ZIP disks, flash memory cards, flash USB drives and so on are also referred to as "disks" for the sake of simplicity. The same term can sometimes be applied to RAID arrays as a whole (like this: Array #1 on a Promise controller) and to the individual drives in RAID array.
See storage cluster
the smallest section of disk space that can be accessed by programs, depending on the filing system used this will consist of one or more sectors.
Set of computer systems that are connected together through multisystem hardware or software to provide services traditionally provided by a single system. This arrangement provides higher availability and better scalability of the system.
The smallest unit of hard disk space that DOS can allocate to a file, consisting of one or more contiguous sectors. The number of sectors contained in a cluster depends on the hard disk type.
The grouping of similar objects in a multidimensional space. Clustering is used for constructing new features which are abstractions of the existing features of those objects. The quality of the clustering depends crucially on the distance metric in the space. In bioinformatics, clustering is performed on sequences, high-throughput expression and other experimental data. Clusters of partial or complete gene sequences can be used to identify the complete (contiguous) sequence and to better identify its function. Clustering expression data enables the researcher to discern patterns of co-regulation in groups of genes.
Group of stars numbering from a few to hundreds of thousands of stars. Galactic clusters, sometimes called open clusters, contain up to a few hundred members and occur rather close to the plane of the Galaxy. Globular clusters contain tens of thousands of stars distributed about their center in a spherical manner and are found far from the plane of the Galaxy as well as in it toward the center of the Galaxy.
A tightly-coupled group of computers interconnected to provide high levels of availability and scaling. Sun's clustering solution is the SunPlex (see also "SunPlex"), comprised of Sun servers, Solaris OE, and Sun Cluster 3.0.
A group of Fielding students living geographically close enough to make group meetings feasible at least every other month. Provides members opportunities for intellectual and professional development, as well as peer support.
A cluster is defined as a group of cells that use all of the available frequencies allocated to the network operator.
A group of several servers that share work and may be able to back each other up if one server fails is considered clustered.
1. Also called an ‘allocation unit', it is a number of disk sectors that are treated as a unit. This is the smallest unit of storage the operating system can manage. 2. Two or more systems working together. Refer to ‘Clustering'.
Any grouping or close arrangement of individual flowers that is not dense and continuous
a set of track sectors which is the minimum space used by a read or write.
These are allocation units for data, and are multiples of the sector size. A file, no matter how small it is has to use at least one cluster, and all unused space in that cluster is wasted space. If a file is more than one cluster in size, it will use more than one cluster.
A Cluster consists of 5 Binaries, Trinaries, Novas or SuperNovas and is commanded by a Star Colonel. A Cluster varies in size depending upon the type of units it consists of. Clusters are usually made up of mixed units such as mechs, infantry and air support. Except for Clan Hell's Horses, vehicles are generally viewed as inferior to Mechs and are piloted by freeborn units and serve in secondline solahma or garrison units. Frontline Clusters usually consist of OmniMechs, Elementals and OmniFighters. Secondline Clusters usually consist of BattleMechs, Vehicles and Standard Infantry.
A group of computers linked together sharing resources. Normally applied to VAX or AXP systems when they are then called VMSclusters (or VAXclusters). The benefit of clusters is that they can share the load on multiple nodes while allowing users to share the filestore and services. This means, whatever machine you log-in to you see the same filestore and devices. Return
This is the unit of disk storage used by the operating system. A cluster consists of one or several logical disk sectors, located sequentially. The length of a cluster on floppy disks is usually 1 or 2 sectors, on hard disks it is generally 4 or 8.
This refers to a number of different implementations of shared computing resources. Typically, a cluster integrates the resources of two or more computing devices (that could otherwise function separately) together for a common purpose.
A "cluster" is a group of schools, normally geographically close together, and is subject to an initial projection of pupil numbers.
Several speakers mounted together to provide proper sound coverage to a room.
a group of fused body thetans.
(1) A group of Career Kokua occupations which share a common, fairly specific function such as providing health services or administering an organization. Occupations within a cluster share a substantial core of skills and are frequently interrelated by production process or work environment. (2) As defined by the US DOE Career Clusters project, are 16 groupings of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities.
a group of many nearly identical computers, with the same operating system, user accounts, with shared disks and interconnected with high-speed network. Together with a load sharing system like PBS they can be treated like one computer, but the nodes do not share memory. When compared to SMP machines, clusters are cheaper.
A grouping of LED's that act as a single pixel.
The basic unit of storage on a floppy or hard disk; a cluster includes two or more sectors.
A number of similar things, e.g. bracts or spikelets, grouped together.
A cluster is made up of one or more sectors and is the smallest allocation unit that your computer can write to a disk. Cluster size (number of sectors/cluster) depends on type and size of your hard drive and the Operating System that you are using. If you write a very small file, it is still going to take up a full cluster on your hard drive. If your file is large then it will be written to a group of clusters that are linked together to form a cluster chain.
a grouping of large companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and universities or large public research institutions operating in a particular sector and region – designed to stimulate innovative activity by promoting intensive interactions
1. n. A station that consists of a control unit (a cluster controller) and the terminals attached to it. 2. n. A group of APPN nodes that have the same network ID and the same topology database. A cluster is a subset of a NETID subnetwork. 3. n. In high-availability cluster multiprocessing (HACMP), a set of independent systems (called nodes) that are organized into a network for the purpose of sharing resources and communicating with each other.
Clustering is an up-and-coming technology using two or more computers that function together as a single entity for fault tolerance and load balancing. This increases reliability and up-time in a client/server environment. One computer will sense when another computer is failing or getting bogged down and will take over its tasks.
the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file, typically 4096 bytes
a physical grouping of stars or galaxies bound either temporarily or permanently by gravity.
a group of items, often formed because the similarity among them is high relative to the similarity of them with other items in different clusters, sometimes characterized by a cluster centroid (representative, either a member or a constructed item, often the group average)
The minimum production unit formed by 60 houses built together.
A set of host machines (nodes) that shares a set of disks.
A set of one or more nodes, connected by a network, that are provided boot services by a cluster server.
A set of hosts (each termed a node) that share a set of disks.
A group of workstations connected via a LAN. One computer, the cluster server, performs as a server to the cluster. It provides file access, login access, file transfer, printing and other services across the network to the cluster nodes.
A network of computers in which only one computer has file-system disk drives attached to it.
2 or more sectors
A way of dividing all households in the country into one of about 40 different categories – often called Lifestyle groups – for Segmentation purposes.
The smallest linguistic unit that can be shaped. In languages such as Arabic and many of the Indic languages, the glyphs used to represent each character (hence, each Unicode code point) depend strongly on the surrounding context. In these languages, code points can be turned into appropriate glyphs only by looking at other code points around them: the ''cluster'' of which they are part. In some languages, such as Devanagari, the order of glyphs within a cluster can differ from the order of the corresponding Unicode code points. See Windows Glyph Processing on the Microsoft typography site for further details.
A group of computers that together form a larger logical machine. Oracle clusters computers with the Oracle Parallel Server option.
A set of independent tables with a common column stored together. A cluster can improve performance by reducing I/Os and by preloading related data into the SGA before it is needed.
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