[Beowulf] Re: Building new cluster - estimate (Ivan Oleynik)

[Mark Hahn]

>> using lm_sensors is a poor substitute for IPMI.
>
> IMHO the only disadvantage of lm_sensors is the poroblem of building of right 
> sensors.conf file.

well, there's the little matter of being able to get data when 
the node is crashed, offline, busy, etc.  I also very much like 
the ability to query status, temps, fan speeds out-of-band - 
that is, without stealing cycles from the job.