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Posted by Ville Koskinen (January 17, 2023)

Mascot in the Cloud

Cloud computing is the IT paradigm of our times. More and more business services and applications are delivered as a subscription service, where the software runs in a data centre somewhere, operated by a third-party cloud platform. We are often asked whether you can run Mascot Server “in the cloud” and if so, whether it’s the right solution. The answers [...]

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Posted by Ville Koskinen (December 16, 2021)

Mascot cluster installation security on Linux

Mascot Server has a built-in cluster mode, where the database search can be executed in parallel on a networked cluster of PCs. This requires no special hardware or operating software. The cluster can consist of ‘commodity’ PCs running Windows or Linux. Cluster mode is usually the most practical option for licences of 5 CPU or more, as discussed in Mascot [...]

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Posted by Richard Jacob (December 22, 2020)

How large a Mascot Server licence do I need?

One frequent question from new customers is how many CPUs do I need to licence for my Mascot Server? This is actually two questions. First, Mascot is licensed in CPU units, where 1 CPU is good for 4 cores. The computer can have more than one processor, and each processor can have more than 4 cores, but only the number [...]

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Posted by John Cottrell (September 18, 2018)

Mascot Server cluster mode

Most modern Intel processors have at least 4 cores and some models have 12 cores or more. Mascot Server is licenced by the CPU, where each CPU corresponds to 4 physical cores, so a single PC is perfectly sufficient for licences of 1 or 2 CPU. If you have a larger licence, there comes a point where it is not [...]

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Posted by Richard Jacob (December 14, 2014)

Running Mascot Server on a supercomputer

A supercomputer comprises a large number of dedicated processors, typically hundreds to thousands, that are situated close together in racks and cabinets and connected by a fast network. An individual computational node might look like a normal server or may be a more specialized blade server or a bare bones system of the sort Google and Facebook sometimes use. Their [...]

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