[Beowulf] Windows cluster
Robert G. Brown
rgb at phy.duke.edu
Fri Sep 9 07:25:23 PDT 2005
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Robert [UTF-8] G. Brown wrote:
<oops>
> I'm actually surprised and a little bit appalled that even in the last
> half of 2005, Windows is STILL so unstable that it requires once a month
> downtime for updates. Of course, any time you update ANYTHING on a
> linux box you have to reboot -- on a linux box you only have to reboot
^^^^^^^
windows
> (typically) if you update into a new security-patched kernel, and those
> are rare indeed (and usually unnecessary to apply/reboot in any hurry in
> a firewalled cluster).
Sloppy me this morning...:-(
rgb
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