Reliability analysis was RE: Windows HPC (@ Cornell)

[Tim Wait]

One aspect I haven't seen mentioned in this thread, except for
Greg's oblique reference to Mosix, is that many (most?)
of our clusters run parallel apps. Regardless of HA, if you have
a node fail while running a parallel job, you have just blown your
(supposed) 5 nines away; in my experience, it takes the user O(12+ hours)
to restart the job. Is this deteriorating to HA vice beowulf?

5 nines? Yeah, right ;)

Even those $50k hand built Cray disks die.

Tim

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