Archive for January, 2011

UPS Batteries and compute-3-1

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Compute-3-1 is dead. Oh well. Another free machine from Dartmouth lived out its useful life. On a much better note, Jean ordered us more new UPS batteries and now all four Pulsar Evolution 3000’s have brand-new batteries. Yay! No more beeping in the server room! We like that. Also, less importantly, jobs will not die because of a brief power outage.

More dead hard drives

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

compute-1-8 and compute-1-13 appear to have dead hard drives. Time to tear them apart and see what’s up. I’m about out of spare hard drives, too – I’ll have to order some.