[Beowulf] New member, upgrading our existing Beowulf cluster

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Thu Dec 3 12:21:25 PST 2009


On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:54:47PM -0500, Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> I didn't say it was hard - just impractical. ;)

I suspect we have different ideas about what is impractical. I take
nodes out of service gracefully all the time to fix fans, intermittant
memory errors, system disks going bad, and the like.  If anyone
complained, I would explain that I'm saving them from seeing
interrupted jobs.

-- greg






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