topology

"Center of Mass" between a set of points on a Toroidally-Wrapped Map that minimizes average distance to all points

edit As someone has pointed out, what I'm looking for is actually the point minimizing total geodesic distance between all other points My map is topographically similar to the ones in Pac Man and Asteroids. Going past the top will warp you to the bottom, and going past the left will warp you to the right. Say I have two points (of ...

Does it makes sense to use a single physical box in both DMZ and Secured Zone

Hi, I was sitting in a presentation where i was told it is ok to have a physical box (virtualized into two) where one resides in the DMZ zone and the other resides in the secured zone. I found that such an approach smells bad. Is there any production environment that uses such an approach. I don't have a lot of experience in this spac...

is surface always locally connected?

Is surface always locally connected? I mean, is it true, that it two points belong to this surface, that there exist a continious path (throught other points of a surface)? I feel that it is true but cannot find any confirmation in the internet. ...

SharePoint Topology - can you have redundant application servers?

I am putting together a recommended architecture with two web servers (for redundnacy) and two search servers (for redundancy)... what about the application server (for service applications- profile service, managed metadata service etc...?) Can those even have a redundant server? Thanks for any info... ...