Editing Server farm (section)

==Applications==
Server farms are commonly used for [[cluster computing]]. Many modern [[supercomputer]]s comprise giant server farms of high-speed [[Processor (computing)|processors]] connected by either [[Ethernet]] or custom interconnects such as [[Infiniband]] or [[Myrinet]]. [[Web hosting]] is a common use of a server farm; such a system is sometimes collectively referred to as a ''web farm''. Other uses of server farms include scientific simulations (such as [[computational fluid dynamics]]) and the rendering of [[3D rendering|3D computer generated imagery]] (see [[render farm]]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://garagefarm.net/blog/the-benefits-of-using-a-render-farm|title=What is a render farm|date=2021-06-11|work=GarageFarm|access-date=2021-06-11|language=en-US}}</ref>

Server farms are increasingly being used instead of or in addition to [[mainframe computer]]s by large enterprises. In large server farms, the failure of an individual machine is a commonplace event: large server farms provide [[Redundancy (engineering)|redundancy]], automatic [[failover]], and rapid reconfiguration of the server cluster.