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List:       beowulf
Subject:    Re: [Beowulf] Why I want a microsoft cluster...
From:       Jim Lux <James.P.Lux () jpl ! nasa ! gov>
Date:       2005-11-24 1:16:37
Message-ID: 6.1.1.1.2.20051123171528.02d94338 () mail ! jpl ! nasa ! gov
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At 04:38 PM 11/23/2005, Joe Landman wrote:


> Chris Samuel wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 November 2005 08:30, Joe Landman wrote:
> > 
> > > Look carefully at what the CTC has to go through with their systems.  If
> > > you are running 1000 copies of Norton on your disks, with each one
> > > loaded up with a personal fire wall, anti spyware and virus ... do you
> > > really have a cluster?
> > This can be a problem for Linux clusters too, when you have IT security 
> > people who don't understand Linux and impose policy as if it were Windows.
> 
> Yes.  Can be a problem for any system.  However, in order to successfully 
> use Linux clusters you do not need a virus checker running on the linux 
> compute nodes.

If success is defined as meeting idiotic, but well-meaning, corporate rules 
and policies, then the Linux cluster WOULD need the virus checker.
<grin>


Jim 

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