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Ashley Pittman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:44 -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Ashley Pittman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:56 -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote:
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<pre wrap="">If it were up to me I'd turn *everything* possible off except sshd and
ntp. The problem however is the maintenance cost of doing this, it's
fine if you've only got one cluster and one app but as soon as you try
to support multiple users on multiple distributions the cost of ensuring
everything is shut down on all of them skyrockets and it becomes easier
which is to stick with the status quo :(
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<pre wrap="">O_o...you mean you're still using local OS installations ... ew!
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Well yes, we run a OS on the nodes, what would you propose instead?
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Aw come on, you know what I meant by this.<br>
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<pre wrap="">We'll sell you a cluster either running of local disk or network boot
with ramdisk and some NFS, I actually prefer the former however.
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Well, it's one of those "it depends" with size Vs Power Vs Cooling Vs
manageability Vs network fabric optimization question.<br>
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Eric
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