On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> we have all our compute nodes on private addresses and also disable NAT. > this does make it somewhat trickier to get external-hosted evil-type > licenses to work (flexlm with vendor daemons). but I'd say this is a fairly > useful > dividing issue: clusters that are all-public tend to be personal-ish and > small. clusters that are larger and support very wide groups tend to be > more tightly controlled. I think the way to think of it is that if you > have a personal or limited-purpose cluster, you _do_ in fact want it to > depend on (and wait on) external resources (licenses, fileservers, GUI > apps). > for a large, broad-purpose cluster with lots of disparate users, it's very > important to minimize those sources of complexity and inefficiency. Thanks Mark! Makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing your experiences! -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
