[Gllug] Fedora 11 gets it wrong

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Wed Jun 10 11:20:22 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:04:53PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
[...]
> You definitely might want a server sitting in a remote data centre with no
> network access. If, say, you were into running some extreme hydrodynamics
> simulations.

Large simulations will be using a cluster, which does rather imply network
access between nodes. And as I understand it, these tend to use ssh to issue
jobs piecemeal to the nodes.

There's no real need to provide direct access to and from the Internet from
these nodes, though.

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