[Gllug] Fedora 11 gets it wrong

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 10 11:30:58 UTC 2009


2009/6/10 Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>:
> >
> Large simulations will be using a cluster, which does rather imply network
> access between nodes.

That's true. And I've installed a couple of them, in somewhere where
the guards have Heckler and Kochk automatic rifles,
and you can be assured they have been issued with bullets too.

> And as I understand it, these tend to use ssh to issue
> jobs piecemeal to the nodes.
Some versions of MPI use the 'rsh' protocols, including the SCore MPI
we used to work with.
But yes, for instance the more modern OpenMPI uses ssh.
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