Preface

Designing Enterprise Solutions with Sun Cluster 3.0 is published under the auspices of the Sun BluePrints™ program. This book is written for systems architects and engineers who design clustered systems. It describes the fundamental systems engineering concepts behind clustered computer systems and discusses solutions and trade-offs in some detail.

Systems engineering is concerned with the creation of the entire answer to some real-life problem, with the answer based on science and technology [Ramo 65]. Systems engineers deal with the people/process/technology balance and multivariate problems. They integrate huge numbers of components, unwanted modes, partial requirements, indefinite answers, probabilities of external conditions, the testing ...

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