Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Thu Apr 8 09:54:50 EDT 2010


On 04/08/2010 09:31 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> I used to work on a parallel computer whose compute nodes were named
> after stars.  So, whenever I needed to do something to all of the
> nodes in the cluster I'd have to write code like:
>
>    for H in antares atria avior sirius \
>             regulus becrux pollux mirtak ; do
>  
>        ....
>    done
>
>
> I would have preferred a more uniform set of names, but that's the way
> that things go sometimes.
>
>   
dsh solves that problem

-Mark


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