[Beowulf] motherboards for diskless nodes
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John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.comSat Feb 26 03:04:47 PST 2005
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On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 17:18 -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > you means s/node/disk/ right? sure, but doing raid1 on a "diskless" > node is not insane. though frankly, if your disk failure rate is > that high, I'd probably do something like intermittently store > checkpoints off-node. We recently put in mirrored system disks on a cluster. The nodes in question are beefy SunFire V40z's, and the cluster is intended to run long (ie. week long) jobs and the concern was raised about long jobs failing due to a disk failure.
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