On 3/23/23 3:12 pm, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:

honestly is there any better task for a system admin than coming up with good hostnames?

I remember at $JOB-2 the first of our HPC systems had been all racked up but it wasn't until I had was in the datacentre in the CentOS 5 installer saying "OK, now I *really* need a hostname for this machine" that we finally agreed what to call it.

..and that how Bruce was named.

(and no, not a Monty Python reference, but a homage to a mentor of my then boss who got him into HPC and who had recently died)

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Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Berkeley, CA, USA

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