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Building a High-Performance Cluster with GentooBuilding a High-Performance Cluster with GentooPosted Apr 12, 2007 6:29 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338)In reply to: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo by dlang Parent article: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo
>using the approach described above you don't have different systems running different versions of things (unless you want them to).
You misunderstand -- the point is that all your systems might be the same, but they'll be different from everyone else's systems. For instance, they will be different from the people who you let upgrade to cool new version of Foobar2000 first, so that they could trip over the nasty bugs and get them fixed before you hit them. (Plus the maintainers tasked with fixing those bugs have a huge combinatorial space of configurations they are trying to support.)
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Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo Posted Apr 12, 2007 13:06 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Indeed. This is one of the reasons *why* I run bleeding-edge systems on all my systems for which stability is relatively unimportant: specifically so that I can find niggling portability bugs before other people. I find a few a month, typically (sometimes a few a week, sometimes none for a month or two, but the trickle never stops completely).
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