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

Rahul Nabar rpnabar at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 15:33:05 PDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/26 John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com>:
>> 2009/10/26 Rahul Nabar <rpnabar at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> True. I just thought that if my  BMC is running a webserver it cannot
>>> be all that stripped down. Maybe I am wrong and it is possible to
>>> write a compact webserver.
>
> The address of the world's first webserver lives on at http://info.cern.ch/
>
> The hardware is in a glass case at CERN. http://guides.macrumors.com/NeXT_Cube
> "The NeXT Cube ran a 25 MhZ 68030 processor, and came with a mammoth 8
> MB of RAM. "

Nice! Very impressive!  And to think of all the bloat we accumulated
over the years......

-- 
Rahul




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