💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 15

Today we turn our $nn million dollar machine off for three days.

#HPC #RC

https://butt.holdings/

Hold on to your butts!

Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀

The $nn million dollar machine is powered down. It takes us almost a whole day to do so. It usually takes about 5 hours to power it back up.

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Le machine de $nn millions est éteinte.
Ça nous prend presque une journée entière pour l'éteindre. Généralement, il faut environ 5 heures pour la remettre en marche.

Jun 15 at 9:36pmWeb
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 15

'The machine' is of course made of thousands of parts. But we view it as a whole.

« La machine » est bien entendu constituée de milliers de pièces. Mais nous la considérons comme un tout.

Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 15
One of you (hi there, love) is going to see something in this graphic and be unable to un-see it. For that I'm deeply sorry. I did fix it in the master but haven't updated the version online.
Show threadLes OrchardJun 15
@tankgrrl was there a butt
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 15

@lmorchard I mean... that would be telling! 😁

But no. No butts. Not intentionally, anyway.

Show threadJohn KellerJun 17
@tankgrrl I’d make a guess, but I don’t want those be wrong and thereby give you *another* thing that you feel that you have to change. 😜
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 17
@johninparis 😂 I appreciate that.
Show threadDave FischerJun 16

@tankgrrl

What's the interconnect?

Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16
@davefischer For storage and compute, Infiniband NDR and HDR. GPU is a mix of ConnectX and NDR. Everything else is a mix of InfiniBand HDR/FDR and Ethernet.
Show threadThomas BrandJun 15
@tankgrrl
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16
@Eggfreckles Thank god. I kept waiting and waiting! 😁
Show threadThomas BrandJun 16
@tankgrrl I can't believe you are still running Windows 98 on Harvard's largest compute cluster.
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16
@Eggfreckles Cost-cutting. :)
Show threadThomas BrandJun 16
@tankgrrl you should at least splurge for the Second Edition.
Show threadCM HarringtonJun 16
@Eggfreckles @tankgrrl You know damned well Accounting ain’t gonna approve that.
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16
@octothorpe @Eggfreckles
Why do you need 98 when 95 is enough!
Show threadJon_AlperJun 16
@tankgrrl @octothorpe @Eggfreckles VMS or go home!
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16
@jon_alper @octothorpe @Eggfreckles It's Windows 98, VMs haven't been invented yet. 😄
Show threadThomas BrandJun 16
@tankgrrl @jon_alper @octothorpe VMS is older than I am. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS?wprov=sfla1
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16
@Eggfreckles @jon_alper @octothorpe I read Jon's post as "VMs" instead of "VMS" 😄
Show threadThomas BrandJun 16
@tankgrrl @jon_alper @octothorpe that's okay we know you are anti-VAX.
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16

@Eggfreckles @jon_alper @octothorpe
oh god don't put that on the internet or the next thing you know i'll be branded anti-vax.

But we still don't understand the effects of VMS on greybeards.

Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16
@Eggfreckles Fair. I'll see if we can work it into the budget.
Show threadAaron MahlerJun 16
@tankgrrl It's sitting there while it counts up the RAM during the POST, hoping you don't miss the moment to get into the BIOS so you have to do it AGAIN that really sucks...
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Jun 16
@halfpress
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