[Systems] Progress with treehouse

[David Farning]

Thanks guys!

It is great to VIG, SL, and FSF  working together on the new machine
in GNAPS. Sorry I couldn't resist the acronyms.

david

Any thought on when we are going to outgrow this machine:)  Growth is good!

david

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Bernie Innocenti<bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Yesterday Danny, Dogi and me relocated the machine called "treehouse"
> from its temporary location at the Media Lab to the basement of Pika
> (<http://pika.mit.edu/>) to sort out a stability problem that would make
> the machine crash after a while when running burnBX (a stress-test
> utility).
>
> It turned out that the problem was just overheating: two fans were
> mounted backwards and blowing the air in a circle inside the 2U case.
> Plus, the three drives were packed too close to each other, completely
> blocking the airflow of another fan.
>
> Treehouse has now been running stress tests since yesterday without a
> glitch, so we're going to rack it at GNAPs co-location facility this
> morning.  Hopefully it will transition into production soon.  It's a
> fairly large machine:
>
>  * 2 x dual-core, 64bit AMD processors
>  * 64GB of memory
>  * 3 1TB hard drives configured in RAID1 (1TB of storage)
>  * remote management module
>
> Thanks to Dogi for making his personal server available to host Sugar
> Labs related services.
> Thanks to Danny Clark for taking care of all the logistics and for his
> time.
> Thanks to Danjared and the other Pikans for their great hospitality and
> food!
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>
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