Quick survey -- UPSs on slave nodes?

John Bushnell bushnell at chem.ucsb.edu
Mon Feb 10 13:52:02 PST 2003


For several clusters that we have of about 16 dual-cpu
nodes, we only use UPS's on the head nodes.  This enables
the compute nodes to see the NFS mounted /home and the
PBS server after short power outages.  For longer outages,
the head node can do a controlled shutdown.

       - John




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