This book uses the term platform to indicate the combination of the operating system and its underlying hardware.
Depending on the architecture of your computer or platform, you can choose among the following options for configuring coservers:
Each of these options is best suited to a particular platform architecture, as the following sections describe. For configuration purposes, a node is a computer system that contains one or more processors and has a separate network address, separate random-access memory, and access to owned disks for storage. That computer system could be a uniprocessor, an SMP computer, an independent subsystem within an SMP computer, or a single computer within an MPP platform.
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