Ron Mayer wrote:
> http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?msr_tr_id=MSR-TR-2002-53
Wrong link...
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&id=812
This is the one that discusses scalability, price, performance,
failover, power consumption, hardware components, etc.
Bottom line was that the large server with SAN had $1877K hardware costs
while the application-partitioned cluster had $110K hardware costs --
but it's apples-to-oranges since they were deployed in different years.
Still a big advantage for the small systems.