RAM upgrade
Our new RAM has arrived. We're taking node 211 offline to test the new chips, this should have no impact on computation or the Gluster file system.
Update: server upgraded from 4 to 8GB of RAM. We'll do the…
New toys for spring
To celebrate spring we've deployed some more worker nodes and disk space. Yet another 200 series server with 4 cores and 4GB of RAM, as well as two new 400 series servers. These last two servers come out of the…
Power disruptions
Power to the Rondebosch area dropped again this morning, once for 2 minutes and then a brief brownout just after 11:30. We are assured that this is not "load shedding" by Eskom, although this is of little relief to anyone…
A stressful day
Patched kernels on HPC servers to 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5; All went fine except for the head node which has an issue with latest kernel (dies at boot with a kernel panic) so booting it into older version 2.6.18-194.1.1.el5 until we can sort…