Status of Fly

There will be pictures later, but for now:

-old 2GB nodes are out

-new blades are in, in chassis, electrical and network all done

-Opterons are also racked up, with power and network

-Cabling is all worked out and much neater than it’s ever been!

Now I’m going to get the remote console for the blades working, fix the broken cluster nodes (compute-1-11 just died, I hope it’s a power supply), add the Opterons to the existing cluster as rack 3 (they work out of the box), and wait for Chris to be done comping so I can reinstall the cluster and make sure the blades work with ROCKS 5.1 (they don’t appear to work, at least out of the box, with ROCKS 4.2.1, which is what we currently have installed).

The Opterons I speak of are the five free 2×2.0Ghz/4GB nodes from Jared. They appear to be about as fast as the nodes I just removed from the cluster, but they have more RAM and are 64-bit, so I guess I’ll use them.

This entry was posted on February 9, 2009 at 2:11 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.