[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[Rich Jordan]

On Mar 4, 9:41 pm, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> I don't know the story behind how the Deathrow cluster chose it's nodenames
> but I'm pretty sure the intention wasn't to set up a fan club or a Hitler's
> Birthday type monument. Having said that I am a little more used to cluster
> based on the names of The Stars, Coins, Fish, SnowWhite's Dwarfs (sorry
> vertically challenged :-) etc
>
> Cheers Richard Maher
>


At work we use aircraft or variations on their names: Cessna, Boeing,
Hawki, Raptor, Eagle, Tomcat.

At home I used music and literature for a while (Fugue and Fury,
Sonnet, Tempo) till I got an alpha running NT and didn't want to waste
a good name on it (it became 'wastedalpha' but I almost named it
'rap'), then switched to cars (Fury, heh!, Monaco, Polara, Dart,
Demon, Duster, Cuda, hemi).

Customer systems are mostly boring names.  Three letters to ID the
customer, two for the architecture, and the last a digit representing
the 'number' of that node.  Most customers only have one these days
since its so hard to sell the cluster license due to its extremely
high cost.

Never did hobbits, planets, Star Trek, or dwarves.