cumulus::CyberLab is a unified system composed of many loosely coupled networked devices (nodes).

Many loosely coupled nodes working together has several distinct advantages:

1. More reliable – because each node adds data and hardware redundancy.  Nodes can be added or lost and the system continues to work.  There is no single point of failure.

2. More scalable – because each node is a self-sufficient device (CPU, memory, disk) with its own I/O capability adding nodes does not un-balance the system.

3. Power of parallelism – the system spreads work, load-balances and optimizes networking.  Since each node has its own I/O channels (disk, memory, network) there is much greater I/O throughput.

cumulus::CyberLab has solved the problem of complexity usually associated with this class of system by employing self-assembling and adaptive plug-and-play appliances.

Symbiote Network Appliance