Developing for a Cluster Environment

The Oracle Solaris OS can be configured into a cluster environment to improve availability. The Sun Cluster Data Services Developer’s Guide for Solaris OS describes the Sun Cluster data service API. Developers can use this API to turn a standard user application such as a web browser or database into a highly available data service that can run in the Oracle Solaris Cluster environment. For high availability in virtualized environments, see the Oracle Solaris Containers feature and Oracle VM Server for SPARC.

In addition, you can parallelize applications to enable them to reap the benefits of running in a clustered environment. Oracle Message Passing Toolkit, formerly Sun HPC ClusterTools, is a set of parallel development tools for high-end distributed memory applications. See Using Oracle Message Passing Toolkit for more information.