Our new cluster
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it looks like the matrix
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@Team503 Good call. Flooding has been known to occur even high up in an office tower. Not a concern to casually dismiss. At my former employer, we were lucky: our NOC, PBX, servers, and battery racks were two floors below the one with the fire sprinkler fault.
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@brocktice Not to mention protects from flooding.
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four words.
fast as hell computer
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Instead of human entrails hanging from the ceilings, you have Ethernet cords.
Well done.
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I want to build an manage a beautiful pile of electronics like this one day. 5 stars for lettin me peek in the cluster.
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With what? Rainbow tables? Infiniband is hella expensive! What applications are you running on the cluster? Must be nice to actually have programs take advantage of all the nodes. You people better guard your stashes because once we start writing code on our NVIDIA CUDA and Playstation 3 clusters it's game over!
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haha matrix eyecandy.
The blinking lights reminds me a little of the blinkenlights LED kernel module.
Nice rig. I bet there's a lot of pr0n on all of that HDD space :-P
Joe11Blue 2 years ago 4
Actually the hard drives are pretty full of simulation data at this point. Didn't take us long to fill it all up.
brocktice 2 years ago 3
Ugh, no elevated floor !! Blasphemy !
Linux ? Blasphemy !
Did I see a cup of coffee there between the racks ? Blasphemy !
kleykenb 2 years ago
kleykenb, I too was distressed about the lack of an elevated floor. Unfortunately, I had no say in it. I'm not sure what you'd suggest running instead of Linux on a cluster like this. Also, there was no coffee cup, I think what you're referring to is a container full of multicolored cable ties.
brocktice 2 years ago
@brocktice Old questions/comments i know but...
What are the benefits of a raised/elevated floor?
So you could manage cold airflow more easily from beneath the heatsource as opposed to in the same room as it?
produKtNZ 1 year ago
@produKtNZ The main benefit (in my understanding) of a raised floor is that you pipe in the A/C under the racks, exhaust it right in front of them through perforated floor plates at high pressure, and then draw the hot air off the backs near the ceiling. The A/C units in that room are actually designed for raised flooring, even though they're not being used with it. IBM's BlueGene systems have special ducting that takes advantage of such a set-up. Can put cables under the floor too.
brocktice 1 year ago