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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Andy Sporner wrote:

> Looks nice, but very Assymetric...

and that's good in a cluster. Assymetry is very very good. There is no
need to so SSI on all the nodes in the cluster -- just the node you log
into.

SSI on 1024 nodes is a huge mistake.

ron


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