Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services…does it apply to SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2?

I recently received a great question concerning the whitepaper Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services:

Question, does this also apply for SQL Server 2008?

What are you experiences with the scale out? I’m in the process of recommending using this technology to a large customer of mine and want to make sure we are actually able to deploy such a setup.

So let’s tackle these issues one-by-one.

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