[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:07:21 UTC, Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> wrote:

> On Mar 4, 9:41 pm, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 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).

When I managed the cluster at work, it was an 880, two 8200s, and a 
VS3100 (mine). This was because DEC couldn't do one machine that would 
satisfy the tender requirement, but the 8200s were a bit of a dead loss.
Because of the differing sizes, I called the 8800 Saturn, and the other 
nodes, Janus, Phoebe and Titan. Room there for all the expansion we ever
did, and more!

The cluster was replaced by a single machine (probably a 3xxx but I 
can't remember as I got out of that area around that time). It was sold 
to the users as 'better' than the cluster. My last act was to name it 
Sirius...it took three years for management to realise I'd done that 
because it was a dog...

At home, we had a small company named Tavi (after a cat we once had). So
the first two machines were named Rikki and Tikki. After that, we just 
used lots of Jungle Book names...Mowgli, Baloo, Nag....
-- 
Bob Eager