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Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher
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an important piece is missing..... |
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2003-11-25 08:32:03 |
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From what I understand, it's actually important that each node remain stable. The primary ways of dividing processing time on a supercomputer are nodes and hours. If you grab 10 nodes and are going to be doing computations for the next 10 hours, you'll have a significant issue with one node going down.
Especially if you have to then piece together a dataset with incomplete data.
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