> That is fine. We have to kinds of developers right now.
> People who want to embed high performace pc in clusters,
> and people who want to embed linux in small machines.
Sychron's interested in commodity clusters for resilience rather than
performance. Our software manages clusters of commodity PCs such that
there's no single point of failure; services survive failed PC systems
and network components. [ I won't say any more, or this will turn into a
pitch. www.sychron.com if you are interested ]
OS installation per se isn't our core business, but we are interested in
anything which makes Linux clusters easier to use and more reliable;
Linuxbios seems to fit the bill.
There are obvious advantages like not relying on relatively unreliable
electromechanical things like hard disks (not just paranoia - we have 16
nodes in the US office which have been running largely uninterrupted for
1 year - and a disk failed last week). Fast booting is a big plus;
regular reboots tend to have a good effect on any OS, not just Linux. As
job scheduling is part of what we do, why not schedule a three second
reboot in between jobs? Also, as I've said in a previous email, I want
to ignore any unnecessary hardware on the basis that it might fail. It
probably won't but why take the chance?
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