[375] in athena10
Re: Adding software "to the release"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Aug 5 00:35:27 2008
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 00:35:12 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Kenneth Charles Arnold <kcarnold@MIT.EDU>
Cc: athena10@MIT.EDU
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Kenneth Charles Arnold <kcarnold@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 5 Aug 2008
at 00:32:26 -0400 in <4897D7DA.7010901@mit.edu>:
> Any investigation into using IP multicast for cluster upgrades? It would be
> a multiplicative bandwidth savings, if the hub can handle it. (I'm not sure
> how that end works though.)
I don't think there is good mature technology for IP multicast file
transfers, much less system upgrades (which are a bit more complicated).
MIT's multicast infrastructure has...varied in it's status and degree
of performance. I'm not really sure what it's like right now.
--jhawk
