if you have applications in which the online activity consists primarily of large-scale reports and decision support systems (DSS) querying from a large user population, consider creating a multiple-node cluster in which all Adaptive Server instances service these same applications.
When organizing this system, pay attention to:
The scalability of users, queries, and response time as the workload expands from one to N nodes.
The load distribution of clients across instances and their relationship to instance capacity and performance.