Status of Fly

Yeah. That’s up 96 CPU’s and 64GB of RAM from before lunch. Not bad.

I love those nodes. They are just so enormously badass. They’re like a cluster in a box. So in case it wasn’t obvious, we now have compute-4-3 and compute-4-4. They’re also just so easy to install. I took the rails out of the box, clipped them into the rack, took the nodes out of the boxes, dropped them into the rails, slid them into the rack. Plugged in two power cords each to two different UPSes each, plugged in and routed the network cables, ziptied up the power cords to make them look pretty, fired up insert-ethers –rack 4 –rank 3, turned on node 3, plugged in a keyboard and mouse, hit F12, waited for it to come up in insert ethers and start the install, repeat for the other one. I think it took me less than half an hour from start to finish.

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