[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

In article <Z7GdnezDdfYz-S3UnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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!
>

You're thinking of Gimli.  Legolas was an elf.

-- Alan