by mheydt
24.
January 2009 03:38
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- Processing pipelines
- Video transcoding
- Converting large numbers of documents into other formats
- Image processing used to convert images from one format to another
- Searching and indexing of large amounts of data
- Mining of large amounts of data
- Batch processing systems
- Various back office applications that needs heavy, but often infrequent batch processing
- Reporting systems that analyze operational data and deliver reports, often infrequently
- Software build systems that do nightly builds
- Software testing systems that execute tests against many different configurations.
- Websites
- Sites that can change the number of servers based upon demand (less at night, more during the day)
- Instant sites needed on demand for specific events
- Seasonal sites (like taxes or various holidays)
- Parallel / concurrent processing
- Financial data correlation, where different systems can work on their own subset of the problem in order to speed processing time
- Parallel video conversion into multiple bitrates
- On-demand / scheduled processing
- Bi-weekly payroll processing
- Video transcoding during media events
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