[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[jayne.aubrie at gmail.com]

On Mar 5, 10:07 am, Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
> 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.

At the last place I did VMS admin I inherited a pair of 7620's names
Kirk and Spock. I managed to get a follow on machine named Scotty but
after that management insisted on "functional" names.  Memory fails to
recal what they were.

At home I went with science fiction authors for OpenVMS systems so I
have Asimov, Blish, Clarke, Gordon (Dickson), JudyL and Lester
(DelRey), Niven, Pohl and Zelazny.  OS/X systems get Elvish names:
Galadriel, Arwen, Legolas, Elrond, Celeborn.  Everything else gets
boring functional names.

  John H. Reinhardt