Massive upgrade underway
Monday, June 28th, 2010We’ve got a new 32GB, 48-core node (not kidding! Yes this node is more powerful by itself than any previous entire rack of the cluster) to put in, 10 32-bit nodes and a 32-bit head node to throw out, a new 8-core, 16GB head node to put in, and 13 nodes to upgrade from dual-core Athlon X2 5000+ with 4GB of RAM to quad-core Phenom II 945’s with 8GB of RAM. Actually, I already did one of those – compute-1-0… worked great, though it required a BIOS update. We also got a recent upgrade to compute-1-8… it’s now a quad-core.
I’ll have to compare the CPU/RAM count of the cluster as it will be next week to how it was in March – I think we might double it.
The cluster will be down for much of this week as I execute this massive upgrade.
