[Beowulf] New member, upgrading our existing Beowulf cluster

[Greg Lindahl]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:40:12AM -0500, Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> if a single node goes down, you need to take down all the
> nodes in the chassis before you can remove the dead node. Not very
> practical.

Eh? What's so hard about marking the other nodes as unusable in your
batch system, and waiting for them to become free?

-- greg