Tom Buskey writes:
> Because we can't keep track of 100 systems & what they do in our head. But
> using a naming scheme means you can script it. We don't really care about
> the names otherwise. Oh, and only one name because if there's another name,
> we'll get a ticket to fix it by the name we can't script.
I used to work on a parallel computer whose compute nodes were named
after stars. So, whenever I needed to do something to all of the
nodes in the cluster I'd have to write code like:
for H in antares atria avior sirius \
regulus becrux pollux mirtak ; do
....
done
I would have preferred a more uniform set of names, but that's the way
that things go sometimes.
--kevin
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