Definition of Cluster
Cluster is
an English term that is not part of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish
Academy ( RAE ). Its use, however, is common in our
language. The word can be translated as "cluster" or "cluster" .
In the field
of computing , cluster is used with different meanings. Cluster
is the set of computers(computers) that are related to each other through
a high-speed network , acting as a unit (that is, as a
single computer).
When
many computers work as a cluster, the calculation capacity is
multiplied , which allows these teams to acquire more power. The
individual potential of each team, therefore, adds up and so the cluster
functions as a kind of super computer. What a
cluster does, in short, is to increase performance. It is usually more
economical to join several computers in a cluster than to have a single
computer with a similar computing
capacity .
On a hard
disk ( hard disk ), a group of sectors located in
contiguous spaces , which constitute the smallest storage unit on the disk
in question , is called a cluster . A file
can be
stored in one or more clusters. If we focus
on industries, a cluster is a group of
companies that are
interrelated in the same field of action.
A horizontal cluster ,
for example, allows several companies located on the same level to share
certain resources. The idea of
cluster also appears, among other contexts, in chemistry and physics . In
this case, a cluster is a small set of atoms .
