[H-GEN] HUMBUG cluster

[Greg Black]

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David Seikel wrote:

|  --- David Jericho <david.jericho at bytecomm.com.au> wrote: 
| > Well, I doubt we need to lug a monitor to each meet. So long as we
| > startup and shutdown the machines properly, it won't be needed.
| > There's always dozens of monitors people won't object to us borrowing
| > for a short period if we need either.
| 
| As the guy that always has to borrow a monitor for meetings, I beg to
| differ.  Usually there is at least one monitor that can be used, but I
| usually have dibs on it.  The projector is usually free after hydra is
| setup, but can be needed by the presenter of a talk.
| 
| The voice of experience says, bring a monitor.

This doesn't sound necessary.  Unless you are tweaking BIOS
stuff (which should happen rarely, if ever), why not just use
serial consoles via a simple cable to some nearby box with a
spare serial port -- most of the players in the cluster game
will have turned up with a box of their own that can do this.
After all, most of the time, you won't need a console at all.

Greg

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