Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)
Mark Komarinski
mkomarinski at wayga.org
Thu Apr 8 09:53:12 EDT 2010
On 04/07/2010 11:42 PM, David Hardy wrote:
> Yes, md, I remember, as do many or all of us, the same bunch of names
> for the systems, usually either from the Snow White gang, or Lord of
> the Rings, or Hitchhiker's Guide. Them were the daze. Now our
> brilliant successors name them with strings of alphanumeric characters
> the provenance of which only they, the holy annointed ones, can fathom.
Those were good when the number of systems was relatively small.
We had the good fortune of having musicians in our group when we built
our HPC cluster. We wound up naming it 'Orchestra' and everything is
named after an instrument, giving us pretty much unlimited expansion.
Each node type or function gets a class of instruments - databases are
percussion, compute nodes are woodwinds or string, etc. I have a bit of
trouble remembering which Oracle system bass-drum is, but we maintain a
wiki page that maintains the list in case we need to look it up.
Every system that has external connections has a service name that's not
the same as the system name (tomcat, www, jboss, mysql, etc.) so that we
don't have users pointing directly to something like 'marimba' and then
have to re-educate them when we retire that system in favor of a new
one. They just still use mysql.
-Mark
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