On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:31:32AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > I assume it's there because many people have scripts which use the output to > > determine if they're running virtual or local. SUSE's ec2 utils use it to > > discover if there's an nvidia graphics card, which I don't think we're > > concerned with. > Discover if there is an nvidia graphics card *on their EC2 image*? There > must be something obvious here that I'm missing. Ayup. Amazon has Cluster GPU Instances, which have Fermi M2050 GPUs. This is a super-huge selling point for HPC cloud, because building a local Tesla cluster is somewhat painful. (I say from experience.) > If it it's for virt/phys determination, I'd be tempted to just put > virt-what in core. +1 from me. But I don't know for sure the original reason was; I'm just guessing. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
