Gil Evans was considered perhaps the best arranger in the jazz idiom during his lifetime. As an arranger, his predominant skill was to understand the unique abilities of each of the musicians in the groups for which he was writing, and to use their abilities to their full potential for the greater overall musical experience. It is due to this ability to get many jazz musicians to play together despite each's desire to be a leader in their own right that we name our server gil.

The remaining nodes are a sampling of some of the best jazz musicians from 1940-1960. When we add machines to the cluster, we will continue our tradition and look to the modern jazz era for more names.

Here are the names of the nodes in the cluster along with the full musician's name, instrument, and dates:

After more nodes were added, we decided to have a uniform naming scheme so the nodes are now called b02 through b32, with gil still being the master. The names above will continue to work. When a machine fails, it's name is redirected to a working machine so that current code will continue to run.