[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[William Webb]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM,  <dabeave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 10:19 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> I think Richard Maher may have missed the relationship betwenedeathrow
>> and names of famous criminals. In countries like China and the USA, the
>> governmnent tends to execute certain types of criminals (hencedeathrow).
>>
>> So it is perfectly logical to have names of famous criminals who have
>> been (or will be)executedfor their crimes.
>
> Just to clear things up about the Deathrow/Node name thing:
>
> It is correct,  it's not as a so much to glorify the serial killers.
> As a kid,  like many people,   I did read a bit about serial
> killers.   Just the thoughts about what they could do is a scary
> thought.   The first node I got up was "MANSON".   This is what I told
> the lady from HP World during a e-mail interview,  "You don't forget
> the name of a VAX named Manson".   It's easy to remember (for most
> people) and it's a non-traditional naming convention.   Needless to
> say,  HP World almost begged me to renamed the cluster.
>
> When DAHMER came online,  one of the Deathrow admin's mentioned
> something about calling it the "Deathrow" cluster.   I liked it,  and
> decided to use it.  You'll noticed users on the cluster are known as
> "INMATES".  It's mostly a long running "joke".   Some people seriously
> don't like it,   but most don't seem to mind.  It's worked out pretty
> well... . Any one that get's an account on "Deathrow" tends not to
> forget the name :)
>
> In other news,   we did have hard drive issues on MANSON.   MANSON is
> the old uVAX 3100/80 that's been working away for quite some time
> (even before it became a Deathrow node).   I _think_ (knock on wood)
> I've gotten the hard drive issue resolved.  DAHMER is a new node (SIMH
> machine) but logins have not been enabled yet,  as we are still trying
> to get that machine online.
>
> I've also been talking with a person who wants to donate a Itanium
> machine to the cluster.   We're still working on that,  but needed to
> say I'm personally very grateful for the contribution to the
> cluster.   So, what should the new node name be if all works out ? :)
>
> - Beave
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I'm trying to remember some of the other names that came up in our
email conversation last time when you (or Doc) chose GEIN:

BUNDY and SPECK come to mind.

Good to see ya posting; it's been a while.

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