--- On Fri, 10/9/09, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mark Hahn <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Re: recommendation on crash cart for a cluster > room:fullcluster KVM is not an option I suppose? > To: "Buccaneer for Hire." <[email protected]> > Cc: "Beowulf Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 2:02 PM > > A node on a pallet waiting for > you do upgrade firmware is absolutely worthless. 1000 > of them even more so. > > I'm not sure why you keep going on about bios > updates. they're easy and > automatable, so not a real issue for clusters. no > offense! > No offense taken taken... Because the node should be ready for prime time when we get it. But it is not the BIOS where the problems are, but all the little sophisticated pieces of the node with its own firmware where you have to plug in and hit keys, and wait, and hit keys. This may be OK if you have a small cluster, not OK when you have tons of nodes. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
