[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[Richard B. Gilbert]

jayne.aubrie at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
> 

PLEASE!  Legolas was a dwarf, not an elf!