On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 09:45:50AM +0100, Jonathan Barber wrote: > The problem with SSH based approaches is when you have failed nodes - > normally they cause the entire command to hang until the attempted > connection times out.
Normally what people do is ping the node before trying ssh on it. And have reasonable timeouts around both the ssh connect and the command execution. There's no fundamental reason why this is any different from messaging or subscription-plus-messaging. -- greg _______________________________________________ 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
