[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <seisn0$9if$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> Den 2021-08-06 kl. 10:22, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> > In article <3a9cab93-4b5f-41b4-af6b-f02dcd6458d0n at googlegroups.com>,
> > Phil Howell <phow9917 at gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >> But we know your wife has a MacBook!
> > 
> > Indeed.  One of my sons tells me that it is too old to get the latest
> > update.
> > 
> >> You could buy her a new M1 MacBook and use the old one for virtualbox
> >> I'd call that a win-win
> > 
> > But I would need at least half a dozen: three nodes is the minimum for a
> > cluster, then spares.
> > 
> 
> You might have described it earlier, but...
> 
> *Why* do you need to run a cluster in your home/hobbyist environment?

Because a cluster is fun.  The main reason, though, is redundancy, just
like for other folks.  I receive email on my cluster.  With clustering
and HBVS (members connected to different nodes), then if one node goes
down, or a disk fails, then things continue.  It's not a hobbyist 
cluster in the sense of "boot it up, get to the DCL prompt, and play 
around".  Rather, I use it for most things for which other people use 
other computers for similar stuff.