Fritz Ferstl <ffer...@univa.com> writes:

> If you look at the approved power-down cycles which the vendors
> publish for state-of-the-art HW then that may be scary. It usually is
> in the order of 2000 cycles.

Indeed, thanks.  I don't remember ever seeing that documented for any of
our hardware.

> The better option would be to switch the systems into energy saving
> modes - if the system provides something like that. Not all do.

I guess any recently-acquired ones will, but I couldn't easily find
useful documentation for Supermicro Westemeres, for instance.

> That said, I know customer cases who have done powersaving with the
> brute force shutdown approach. There is a presentation by s+c about it
> which was held during the last Grid Engine workshop. Have the on-line
> proceedings been archived and made available somewhere?

The 2007 ones are at
http://gridengine.org/assets/static/ws2007/SGEWorkshop2007.htm, if
that's what you mean.  There's also
http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunHPC09/Sun+HPC+Software+Workshop+%2709+Wiki
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