[Beowulf] Emergency Power Off

Robert G. Brown rgb at phy.duke.edu
Sun Mar 18 13:04:37 PDT 2007


On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Jim Lux wrote:

> And, that white paper from APC (which, by the way, has a revised version for 
> 2005 that talks more about the risks of deliberate EPOing as sabotage) is 
> pretty short on practical details, while it's great at showing drawings of 
> buttons.

"deliberate EPOing as sabotage"?  Oh, yeah.  That's way up there in my
risk catalogue.  Solution -- lock server room door, fire any employee
idiotic enough to kill the datacenter deliberately without cause.  This
is in a code discussion?

Sigh.

    rgb

-- 
Robert G. Brown	                       http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb at phy.duke.edu





More information about the Beowulf mailing list