[Beowulf] any creative ways to crash Linux?: does a shared NIC IMPI always remain responsive?

Rahul Nabar rpnabar at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 10:15:49 PDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Hearns, John <john.hearns at mclaren.com> wrote:
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>
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> On the original Opteron sun servers
> which had BMCs and the two Ethernet interfaces which you could
> daisy-chain,
> the BMCs were Motorola single board computers running Linux.
> So ssh and http access were already there with whichever Linux distro
> they
> ran (you could look around in /proc for instance)

Wow! I didn't realize that the BMC was again running a full blown Linux distro!

-- 
Rahul



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