[Beowulf] Nodes with or without HD?

[Steven Timm]

The disadvantage of having disk in the cluster is that you
will increase your maintenance cost.  we have 600+ nodes
at Fermilab, all with system disks and data disks, and
disks are almost 70% of all hardware calls that we have.

To avoid disk in the cluster there is more technical work
that needs to be done, we are investigating that at the moment.

Steve


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Steven C. Timm, Ph.D  (630) 840-8525  timm at fnal.gov  http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
Fermilab Computing Division/Core Support Services Dept.
Assistant Group Leader, Scientific Computing Support Group
Lead of Computing Farms Team

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] Mathias Brito wrote:

> I would like to know how better or worse is a cluster
> with nodes that have HD. All my nodes in my cluster
> have HD with the System installed. I cannot see why it
> could be worse. Well if anyone have the answer, please
> answer.
>
> Thanks
> Mathias Brito
>
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> Mathias Brito
> Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC
> Departamento de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas
> Estudante do Curso de Ciência da Computação
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