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Maintaining Large Linux Clusters
pompousjerk writes "A paper landed on arXiv.org on Friday titled Installing, Running and Maintaining Large Linux Clusters at CERN [PDF]. The paper discusses the management of the 1000+ Linux nodes, upgrading from Red Hat 6.1 to 7.3, securely installing over the network, and more. They're doing this in preparation for Large Hadron Collider-class computation."
My book on maintaing a cluster of 0-1 nodes will be out next month.
Why on earth would someone need a 1000+ node cluster?
Maybe for a Large Hadron Collider-class computation.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
Hey, *somebody* has to back up the Internet from time to time!
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...or to find Cheney.
Either that, or all the pr0n encoding.
Best...Tivo...*ever*!
Host this thing at an Internap location, and you're the Ultimate LPB.
Searching for "First Posters" for the Homeland Security people to "visit."
SETI client!
"Every room has every movie ever made in any language." Who do you think hosts *that*?
ILM, seeing the second LOTR movie, decides an 'upgrade' is in order for the SW:EP3 render farm.
It takes this much computing power to find WMD in Iraq.
MS compiling Longhorn builds.
Calculating the question for the answer 42.
BitTorrent!
They must be trying to play Doom 3.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
Just a little too late for the SETI@home project. Kind of a shame, really. If only we had those computers sooner...
So that they can survive a slashdotting? ;)
Bush is on fire and its not good for my lungs.
...run Windows?
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Why imagine? I got a calculator...
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16 years, 156 days, 3 hours
Athlons would be putting out better graphics on their own that far into the future.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!