WOL: how does it work?

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> We were hoping/planning to arrange it so that a relative few master
> nodes controlled when the slave nodes start up (and shut down in the
> event of a loss of AC).  Is this not possible?

The Scyld Beowulf system has wake-up and sleep support built in.  

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