[Info-vax] Distant Cluster?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <k4phj0$8g7$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes: 

> Now it is possible to shutdown all the Alphas, the Itanium boxes continue to
> run and vice versa. 

What does "continue to run" mean?  Does it mean that they don't crash, 
or can you do all the stuff you normally do, including I/O to all disks?

Also, how do you shut things down?  With or without /REMOVE_NODE?