I currently work for IBM doing this exact sort of thing. Its called PowerHA pureScale (used by DB2). Cluster application service providing, for shared data and

I currently work for IBM doing this exact sort of thing. Its called PowerHA pureScale (used by DB2). Cluster application service providing, for shared data and network data concurrency. Its actually a pretty cool technology and I can imagine that similar solutions will enter the market soon. Clustered applications is the next thing until we break past the physical wall on processing power and speed. But also, who knows. Maybe clustering will be to data processing like SOA and web services were to web apps. Doubt it though.