Fwd: new biocluster pics online

[Rayson Ho]

> For the people like me who are total infrastructure geeks...
> 
> I've put some more pictures up in the 
> http://bioteam.net/gallery/bioclusters gallery:
> 
> (1) http://bioteam.net/gallery/SunLX50
> 
> (Not a cluster!) just images of the internal/external layout of Sun's
> 
> new Linux-on-Intel box that bioteam is eval'ing. Also shots of 'Sun 
> Linux 5.0' installing. All in all not super exciting unless one has a
> 
> particular interest in the LX50 hardware although I'd love to know if
> 
> people can figure out which contract manufacturer is stamping these
> out
> 
> for Sun as the chassis looks super familiar :)
> 
> (2) http://bioteam.net/gallery/HarvardStats
> 
> 20-cpu Linux compute farm using Dell hardware. All nodes attached via
> 
> GigE thanks to onboard 1000-TX nics on the PowerEdge 1650 nodes. 
> Built
> 
> over the last 2 days for the Department of Statistics at Harvard 
> University. Running Sun GridEngine 5.3p2 right now and will mostly be
> 
> used for running internally-developed software plus some common 
> informatics applications. The compute nodes have dual 80gig IDE
> drives 
> and we will be experimenting with Linux software raid mirroring on a 
> partition or two so as to get maximum IO on local disk. This is
> because
> 
> the head node + Dell's general reputation having a really slow 
> performing line of PERC RAID controllers means that the head node is 
> going to be a performance bottleneck if it gets thrashed with NFSv3 
> fileservices duties.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Chris
> 
> 

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