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People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers

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90 points sugarpimpdorsey | 2 comments | 30 Jul 25 23:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.621s | source
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teekert ◴[03 Aug 25 09:48 UTC] No.44775397[source]▶
Perhaps it is worth noting that all super computers I know (like the Dutch Snellius and the Finnish Lumi) are Slurm clusters with login nodes.

Bioinformaticians (among others) in (for example) University Medical Centers won’t get much more bang for the buck than on a well managed Slurm cluster (ie with GPU and Fat nodes etc to distinguish between compute loads). You buy the machines, they are utilized close to 100% over their life time.

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1. tomcam ◴[04 Aug 25 10:34 UTC] No.44784010[source]▶
Dutch Snellius sounds like an obscure baseball player from the 1940s
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2. teekert ◴[04 Aug 25 10:52 UTC] No.44784123[source]▶
Snellius was the Latin name of the Dutch mathematician Willebrord Snel van Royen [0] (" ... best known for Snell's law, named after him, which indicates how light rays are broken when light passes through different materials").

[0] https://servicedesk.surf.nl/wiki/spaces/WIKI/pages/30660184/...