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

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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

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Great news. Have fun with the usual problems and suspects. :)

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Thanks for the great news Matt and thanks to the GPU Users Group for such a grand Donation.

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

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?

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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 ;)

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Janice

Thanks for the update Matt, and thanks to the GPU Users Group for their Server Donation,

Claggy

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

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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!

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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!

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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.

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Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc

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

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I've wondered what that server looked-like (compared to the Proliants). I still am wondering, but, hey...

(ALL IN GOOD-NATURED RIBBING!)

Bret

http://www.intel.com/products/server/systems/sr2600ur/sr2600ur-overview.htm

                                                                 Joe

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!

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

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.

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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

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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

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Matt!

[snip]

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."

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."

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

Me, too, on the ribbing...

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

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! :-)

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>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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