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Running Up That Hill (Jan 10 2011)
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Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
Good news: synergy was waiting for me in a box when I arrived this morning. Even better is that after it shipped last week another donation was given to double its memory, so it'll have a total of 96GB of RAM very soon. Thanks again to Todd and the GPU Users Group for all your generosity and help! Todd shipped it with an OS so I could make sure it wasn't DOA. Everything looked good, but then there was a comedy of errors trying to locate missing Fedora install CDs, and then trying to burn new ones. This turned out to be amazingly difficult (broken CD burners, broken CD burning software). Ultimately it was lucky that Bob brought in his Mac laptop as that was the first thing in our office that was successful in creating an installer. Jeez. Anyway, the afternoon is being spent getting this system set up with a "general SETI configuration" on our lab bench. I guess you might want a photo of "first light." By the way, the bus broke down on the way up the hill to the lab this morning. We actually had to get out and walk the remaining 300-500 feet (in altitude). Happy Monday! - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
Awesome Matt! Thank you for the pictures, and letting us know it got there safely! I'm sure synergy will make an excellent addition! Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31009 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Great news. Have fun with the usual problems and suspects. :) |
Jim_S Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31 |
Thanks for the great news Matt and thanks to the GPU Users Group for such a grand Donation. I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.) |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
Looks good Matt. Thanks to the members of GPU Users Group and whoever donated enough to double the memory too. Have you figured out what Synergy's duties will be yet? PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
Looks good Matt. Thanks to the members of GPU Users Group and whoever donated enough to double the memory too. Have you figured out what Synergy's duties will be yet? If he answers that now his frog will die!! Seriously, Matt is allowed to test and see what it can do first ;) Janice |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Thanks for the update Matt, and thanks to the GPU Users Group for their Server Donation, Claggy |
Todd Hebert Send message Joined: 16 Jun 00 Posts: 648 Credit: 228,292,957 RAC: 0 |
Excellent! Glad to hear that it made it there safely and out of the box worked properly. Credit to FedEx and a good build quality I guess. Todd |
KB7RZF Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 9549 Credit: 3,308,926 RAC: 2 |
Great news Matt! And thank you to the GPU Users Group for the awesome donation, and to the donor of the RAM! This is truely going to be a great year for SETI@home! |
Henry W. Akeley Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 7 Credit: 10,860,602 RAC: 3 |
As far as the up the hill to the lab part, I'm told all those Sierra hikes by staff should have made it look like a cakewalk. Besides, I have it on good authority that some old guy walked all over the Berkeley hills attending the 10th anniversary picnic some time back. Oh, by the way, great news on the server upgrade! |
Geek@Work Send message Joined: 29 Oct 02 Posts: 6 Credit: 753,666 RAC: 0 |
Excellent work Matt. And many thanks to Todd and the GPU users group. Perhaps Synergy will be online in 10 days or so and we can see the results of a lot of work by the Seti Staff. Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc |
tbret Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 3380 Credit: 296,162,071 RAC: 40 |
Matt! That server has a really, really cool chameleon circuit, just like a TARDIS! It looks amazingly like a brightly lit window with a black box in front of it with a keyboard and mouse sitting on top. Or, is that monitor-thingy a new look for an "all-in-one" server? ;-) Okay, okay, I know that sometimes sarcasm can be taken as hatefulness and I don't want to be interpreted that way, so I'll explain that I didn't really expect any of you guys to be professional photographers. It'd be interesting to see some of your "holiday snaps," though. "Ah, this is a photo I took of the sky just over the head of my friend sitting at the top of Mt. Everest. The red streak at the bottom of the frame is the top of his parka - see?" "This is a photo I took of the wall just above "The Last Supper" when I was in Florence. You can just see the frame in that corner." "This is a shot of a fish that was swimming just above the wreckage of the Titanic. That thing in the lower left is part of a smoke stack." Hey, I AM just teasing you. Thanks for the photo. I've wondered what that server looked-like (compared to the Proliants). I still am wondering, but, hey... (ALL IN GOOD-NATURED RIBBING!) Bret |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
... http://www.intel.com/products/server/systems/sr2600ur/sr2600ur-overview.htm Joe |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
We actually had to get out and walk the remaining 300-500 feet (in altitude). When I was your age, Matt, I had to walk back and forth to the computer room and it was uphill both ways! |
Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
Matt! There are limits to Photoshop and my time (only had 5 minutes to play) can do with limited source material, but I did a little fixing. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
tbret Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 3380 Credit: 296,162,071 RAC: 40 |
Photoshop? You took time to Photoshop the picture and you didn't give the server ears? <folks, I was just kidding Matt... we don't really have to worry about this> And THANK YOU "GPU USERS" for doing this for all of us! That's just... cool. Bret |
Todd Hebert Send message Joined: 16 Jun 00 Posts: 648 Credit: 228,292,957 RAC: 0 |
The ears are in the RAID card box that I sent with I think - and there is a bezel as well to make it look pretty. Servers for the most part aren't that elegant so we tried to dress it up as best we could :) Todd GPU Users Group Admin and member of the 500k RAC Club |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
Matt! Just couldn't resist this one: Da Vinci's "Last Supper" is in Milano, not Firenze... (Milan, not Florence) "This is a shot of a fish that was swimming just above the wreckage of the Titanic. That thing in the lower left is part of a smoke stack." Me, too, on the ribbing... . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3377 Credit: 20,676,751 RAC: 0 |
Just couldn't resist this one: Da Vinci's "Last Supper" is in Milano, not Firenze... (Milan, not Florence) Naw, it couldn't be I just bought it for ten bucks and have it hanging in my living room! :-) PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC |
tbret Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 3380 Credit: 296,162,071 RAC: 40 |
>Just couldn't resist this one: Da Vinci's "Last Supper" is in Milano, not Firenze... (Milan, not Florence)< No wonder it was so hard to get into the shot in Florence! Or maybe all that "Super Tuscan" wine had something to do with it. Bret |
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