[Beowulf] naming clusters

Christopher Samuel chris at csamuel.org
Thu Mar 23 22:51:27 UTC 2023


On 3/23/23 3:12 pm, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:

> honestly is there any better task for a system admin than coming up with 
> good hostnames?

I remember at $JOB-2 the first of our HPC systems had been all racked up 
but it wasn't until I had was in the datacentre in the CentOS 5 
installer saying "OK, now I *really* need a hostname for this machine" 
that we finally agreed what to call it.

..and that how Bruce was named.

(and no, not a Monty Python reference, but a homage to a mentor of my 
then boss who got him into HPC and who had recently died)

-- 
Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Berkeley, CA, USA



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