A lot of work has been going into the room lately… Two new four post racks hold 0.75T of Fast FC storage, 11 new servers (4-way and 8-way), fibre channel switches.
The Xen Virtualization environment in nearing completion, several VMs are already in service: norbert.hacks (MySQL) & prothero.hacks (LDAP Auth Server). Creating a new virtual server is as easy as cp (1) and editing the conf file.
Work has begun on the new clustered computing environment. Currently 8x 4-way 700MHz Xeon boxes. The Head node has 250GB of Dual Channel SCSI RAID5 storage. It will be sharing this with the other nodes via NFS. Not to far along on this project, yet…. but good things seem to be just around the corner.
