Status of Fly

has a bad hard drive… must fix (or not, this is one of the oldest nodes. I’ll put a new one in if I have a random spare)

Very exciting… Lee has just funded us buying a Dell PowerEdge R410 with 24GB of RAM and dual quad-core 2.26Ghz Nehalems. This will show up for most intents and purposes as a 16-processor node. Should be fun. Fighting with kernels for the install – had to get a newer pxeboot kernel to support the BCM5716 and then put the newer kernel into the distro as well – we’ll see if this screws things up with the distro – I just took the packages from newer CentOS and ROCKS 5.3 (rocks-boot and kernel-*) without actually upgrading to ROCKS 5.3 – we’re still running 5.1. Cross your fingers!