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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>farm</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="farkled.html" title="farkled"/><link rel="next" href="fascist.html" title="fascist"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">farm</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="farkled.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="fascist.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="farm"/><dt xmlns="" id="farm"><b>farm</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A group of machines, especially a large group of near-identical
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machines running load-balancing software, dedicated to a single task.
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Historically the term <span class="firstterm">server farm</span>,
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used especially for a group of web servers, seems to have been coined by
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analogy with earlier <a href="../D/disk-farm.html"><i class="glossterm">disk farm</i></a> in the early 1990s;
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generalization began with <span class="firstterm">render farm</span>
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for a group of machines dedicated to rendering computer animations (this
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term appears to have been popularized by publicity about the pioneering
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“<span class="quote">Linux render farm</span>” used to produce the movie
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<i class="citetitle">Titanic</i>). By 2001 other combinations such as
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“<span class="quote">compile farm</span>” and “<span class="quote">compute farm</span>” were
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increasingly common, and arguably borderline techspeak. More jargon uses
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seem likely to arise (and be absorbed into techspeak over time) as new uses
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are discovered for networked machine clusters. Compare
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<a href="../L/link-farm.html"><i class="glossterm">link farm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="farkled.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="fascist.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">farkled<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>fascist</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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