On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:50:37PM +, Dan Stromberg wrote:
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> I was asked by my employer to publish this a bit ago, so here it is:
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> http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/looper/
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> It's a multithreaded script for running n POSIX shell commands m at a
> time with good error checking
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:13:05PM -0700, Naveed Near-Ansari wrote:
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>> A big disadvantage of in-house is that it leads to an inventory of
>> ancient gear that becomes hard to maintain, and balkanized ownership
>> (we bought that for Project X, and though Project X is long gone, the
>> forme
There are two philosophies on where a compute node's
OS and basic utilities should be located:
1) On a local harddrive
2) On a RAM disk
I'd like to start a discussion on the positives
and negatives of each approach. I'll throw out
a few.
Both approaches require that a compute node "distributio
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Donald Becker wrote:
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> > But that rule doesn't continue when we move to higher core counts. We
> > still want a little observability, but a number for each of a zillion
> > cores is useless. Perhaps worse than useless, because
