On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:44 -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote: > Ashley Pittman wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:56 -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote:
> > 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 :( > > > O_o...you mean you're still using local OS installations ... ew! Well yes, we run a OS on the nodes, what would you propose instead? 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. Ashley Pittman. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
