Compressor 4 - Clusters

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Clusters

When a client sends batches to the Apple Qmaster distributed processing system, all the
processing and subsequent moving of any output files is performed by a group of
Apple Qmaster–configured computers called a cluster. You can create one or more clusters
of service nodes, with one cluster controller included in each cluster. Each computer in
the cluster is connected to the other computers in the cluster through a network
connection.

Cluster

controller

Service

node

Service

node

Service

node

Example of a cluster

Note: This illustration provides only one simple example of a cluster. Other possibilities
are described in

Examples of a Distributed Processing Network

.