On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:41:27AM -0700, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 at 4:50am, Chris Dagdigian wrote
> 
> > http://wiki.gridengine.info/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> >
> > ... is back online although it's running an old version of mediawiki
> > that needs some attention eventually so it may go down for upgrades at
> > some point.
> >
> > That site has been on and offline randomly for quite some time mostly
> > due to it running on flaky/aging hardware running citrix xenserver
> > hypervisor. Storage hiccups and other oddities would halt the VM and it
> > was awkward to ssh into the hypervisor to restart/debug things
> > especially if I was on the road.
> >
> > All that has changed. New home, new basement "datacenter", new
> > 150mbit/sec business-SLA internet circuit and everything is running off
> > a sweet new micro-PC running Xen w/ local SSD disk and metadata and
> > backup storage pools running off remote iSCSI SAN luns. Should be far
> > more reliable now that everything is running CentOS 6.5 on brand new
> > networking, storage and hypervisor kit.
> 
> Allow me to say a very public "Thanks!" for maintaining such a great 
> resource.

I'd like to second that. I've been scraping by with Google cache and the
Wayback Machine. It sounds like this is a volunteer operation too, which
makes me doubly appreciative.

-- 
-- Skylar Thompson ([email protected])
-- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
-- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
-- University of Washington School of Medicine
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