Archive for March, 2009

Cluster Work

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Quick reminder:

Saturday at NOON we are upgrading the cluster.  This means pulling every node from the racks, opening the cases, upgrading the memory, adding SATA PCI cards, adding disks, reassembling the case, putting the nodes back in the racks.  And we’re not done then!  We’ll wire a 3-ary 4-cube for all 64 nodes.

Come join the fun!  (Or risk the wrath of the people stuck doing all the works ;-)

Ron

downtime

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Just a head’s up:  we are going to be doing lab maintenance on this weekend.  Homer will be unavailable from 5pm on Friday March 6th until the work is finished … probably Saturday evening.

When the lab comes back, there will be changes to the firewall as well.  When you ssh to rcs.uncc.edu, it will take you to *hertz* rather than marge.

Finally, Friday/Saturday we are going to upgrade the cluster!  We will be installing SATA drives, upgrading the memory, and rewiring the topology.  Come join the fun.  There will be lots of screws to turn!

Ron

Tue Mar 3 – Reading Group

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Hi All!

The University is on 2-hour delay.  Unfortunately, my son’s pre-school is closed all day.

Let’s plan on having our normal Reading Group (and Group Meeting) starting at 3:00pm in WH 244 today.  We may have a special guest joining us!

Ron