>>> Orego, probably running on one of the five nodes of a custom Linux
>>> cluster build by PSSC Labs: ...
>> ^^^^^ built?
>
> I'm not sure about that.
>
> If someone downloads the source files for GNU Go, and runs "build" on
> his system, I would say "he has done a build", and I would call the
> resulting executable "a build of GNU Go". I don't know if this usage is
> also normal for hardware clusters - I would say that the physical
> cluster was "built by PSSC Labs", but there must be software involved to
> get them to talk to each other, and I might say that this software was
> "a build by PSSC Labs".
Hello Nick, Hideki,
A lovely ambiguous sentence! "build" if you intended it to be a noun (a
build of something, (done) by someone), "built" if you intended it to be
a verb ("a something (that was) built by someone"). Perhaps a comma
after "build" would make it clear you intended it as a noun.
However, I couldn't find a single dictionary (*) using "build" as a noun
for anything except the meaning of physique. Can anyone find one?
I think the software meaning of "build" (i.e. the resulting software
from the process of compiling and linking a program) is
well-established. But I'm at a loss to know if hardware installations
would also be referred to as a build.
Darren
*: Yes, not even my own MLSN (http://dcook.org/mlsn/) project :-)
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