What is InterMezzo?
InterMezzo is a new distributed file system with a focus on high availability. InterMezzo will be suitable for replication of servers, mobile computing, managing system software on large clusters, and for maintenance of high availability clusters. http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ The difference appears to be the difference between a parallel computational environment with an associated filesystem to assist with the parallel Input/Output vs. a distributed network. While the parallel filesystem is writing data to one file (for example) that is proportionately split across multiple nodes (hard drives / processors / computers / machines), the distributed network is copying that one whole file on multiple servers for reliability purposes. However, I do not know about Intermezzo’s claim concerning “managing system software on large clusters”. Parallel processing is used when the computation is larger than one processor can efficiently handle. When multiple processors are used to process the same
