For the people like me who are total infrastructure geeks... I've put some more pictures up in the http://bioteam.net/gallery/bioclusters gallery: (1) http://bioteam.net/gallery/SunLX50 (Not a cluster!) just images of the internal/external layout of Sun's new Linux-on-Intel box that bioteam is eval'ing. Also shots of 'Sun Linux 5.0' installing. All in all not super exciting unless one has a particular interest in the LX50 hardware although I'd love to know if people can figure out which contract manufacturer is stamping these out for Sun as the chassis looks super familiar :) (2) http://bioteam.net/gallery/HarvardStats 20-cpu Linux compute farm using Dell hardware. All nodes attached via GigE thanks to onboard 1000-TX nics on the PowerEdge 1650 nodes. Built over the last 2 days for the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. Running Sun GridEngine 5.3p2 right now and will mostly be used for running internally-developed software plus some common informatics applications. The compute nodes have dual 80gig IDE drives and we will be experimenting with Linux software raid mirroring on a partition or two so as to get maximum IO on local disk. This is because the head node + Dell's general reputation having a really slow performing line of PERC RAID controllers means that the head node is going to be a performance bottleneck if it gets thrashed with NFSv3 fileservices duties. Regards, Chris -- Chris Dagdigian, <dag@sonsorol.org> BioTeam Inc. - Independent Bio-IT & Informatics consulting Office: 617-666-6454, Mobile: 617-877-5498, Fax: 425-699-0193 PGP KeyID: 83D4310E Yahoo IM: craffi Web: http://bioteam.net