[Clusterusers] Rebuilding the cluster

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

Also, FYI: 
http://clusterstatus.i3ci.hampshire.edu/2014/05/05/power-rebalance-and-upgrade-project/
     -Josiah

On 5/5/14 8:29 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Hi guys,
>     It's been a couple of years since I rebuilt the cluster, and I'm 
> starting to have issues with support for more modern software on the 
> older versions of, well, everything, that we have on the cluster, and 
> they just came out with a new version of ROCKS that has all the latest 
> updates, and it seems like, as the year comes to a close, it's a good 
> time (for me, maybe you'd want to wait for another few weeks) to think 
> about when during this summer would be best to rebuild the cluster.
>     I have a shiny new head node with 32GB of RAM ready to install, 
> too, thanks to Mt. Holyoke. Best for me would be sometime between now 
> and July 1. Other votes? The actual downtime of the cluster would 
> probably be a day or two, plus lots of growing pains as I re-install 
> and reconfigure everything, as there isn't really much of an upgrade 
> process - it's almost like starting from scratch every time. So, I'd 
> say figure a week until we're back up and fully functional.
>

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Wm. Josiah Erikson
Head, Systems and Networking
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002