-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/11/12 20:02, Mark Hahn wrote:
>> For serious work, the cluster and its software needs to survive >> power outages, > well, it's a cost-benefit tradeoff. my organization has no power > protection on any compute nodes, though we do UPSify the storage. Agreed - we do the same here at VLSCI. Having UPS for our IBM systems (iDataplex and BlueGene/Q) wouldn't make sense given our power around here is pretty good (touch wood) and would have had a sizeable impact on the cost of the data centre to house them. However, all our storage and infrastructure stuff like management node, etc, are on UPS. Our SGI cluster though is on UPS, it's in a different data centre where all racks are on UPS (DRUPS in this case) and there is no non-protected option. cheers! Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCYZHIACgkQO2KABBYQAh+gZACffBTem8eM8XAGvaVn7WBYnoCK SRIAnAqUbDPy4CvET+OHHZ2WFCTiKx6C =kuRt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
