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Statistics on multi-partition and 4GB machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Sep 4 14:17:23 2003
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:15:46 -0400
Message-Id: <200309041815.h84IFkUE021696@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
There are six non-sparc machines with 4GB disks: coast,
flying-shards-of-metal, josh, lava-lamp, origen, and pizarro. They
are all Ultra 1s or Ultra 2s. None are currently running Athena 9.2,
and three of them (josh, origen, and pizarro) aren't even running
Athena 9.1. I suggest we seek wisdom from this story I just made up:
Pizarro went to seek the origen of the fabled lava lamp. On the
way, he ran into Josh on the coast. Then they discovered six pieces
of anachronistic hardware and blew them into flying shards of metal.
Moving on to multi-partition machines: there are 77 non-sparc
multi-partition machines, not counting our friends the Ultra 1s. None
appear to be IS cluster machines. They break down by install year as:
Install year Minimum age in summer 2004 Number
------------ -------------------------- ------
1998 5.5 years 14
1999 4.5 years 29
2000 3.5 years 27
2001 2.5 years 7
The "minimum age" assumes the machine was purchased and installed on
December 31; the actual age of some of these machines will be older.
Assuming that anything older than 5.5 years isn't an issue, here are
the 63 problematic machines. I've used the install month to get a
better lower bound on the age of the machine as of 2004-07-01, and
I've used stella to get the contact information for each machine. The
starred machines are Ultra 60s, except for emcc which is an Ultra 250.
The rest are Ultra 5s or 10s.
Name Minimum age in summer 2004 Contact
---- -------------------------- -------
sweet-transvestite 5 years 5 months zacheiss
computer-water 5 years 4 months patdixon
mcrae 5 years 4 months norio
mei 5 years 4 months patdixon
muck 5 years 4 months patdixon
oobleck 5 years 4 months esg-cluster-mgrs
yell 5 years 4 months patdixon
libsys 5 years 3 months carlj
caes-sun-7 5 years 1 month
m24-021-sun2 5 years 1 month rachel
lauren 5 years orbitee
macfadden 5 years orbitee
prophecy-girl 5 years ops
dit 4 years 11 months alexp
flog 4 years 10 months chsmith
hodge-podge 4 years 10 months sipb-staff
jiffy-express 4 years 10 months zbt-admin
*snowdrop 4 years 9 months sturner, khiggins
e911 4 years 8 months jwelch
kant 4 years 8 months fgao
l-slide 4 years 8 months esg-cluster-mgrs
pick-gun 4 years 8 months esg-cluster-mgrs
gold 4 years 7 months molecan
mindsun 4 years 7 months naylor
mull 4 years 7 months patdixon
w20-spare-ultra5 4 years 7 months ops
arbor-eater 4 years 6 months ops
draupadi 4 years 6 months stellar-request
iphigenia 4 years 6 months tbelton
balboa 4 years 5 months sidlives
baron-ochs 4 years 5 months carlj
eecs-ath-33 4 years 5 months eecs
yoda-wccf 4 years 5 months wccf
*marthas-vineyard 4 years 4 months hoffmann
*paddington 4 years 4 months hoffmann
stc-con 4 years 4 months kimv
blankschtein 4 years 3 months goldsipe
dip 4 years 2 months network
*horus 4 years 2 months chris
archfile 4 years archhelp, tfitz
ssit-athena 4 years cado
condorcet 3 years 11 months fgao
hume 3 years 11 months fgao
*dw2 3 years 11 months hschan
pdlong 3 years 11 months longpd
defiant 3 years 10 months lcs
samarkand 3 years 10 months patdixon
cwistopher 3 years 9 months lisanti
eecs-ath-02 3 years 9 months davefoss
*emcc 3 years 9 months bbermack
hotel-california 3 years 9 months tregan
keep 3 years 8 months phils, engler
mephistopheles 3 years 8 months ops
whip 3 years 8 months ops
luther 3 years 8 months staton
weepecket 3 years 7 months wccf, nknouf
locke 3 years 6 months fgao
mak1-sun 3 years 6 months John Wilhelmi
rca-sun2 3 years 6 months suenj
ruth 3 years 6 months staton
tasun 3 years 6 months rutledge
urania 3 years 6 months ops
egor 3 years 4 months staton
I collected my data using the solpart discuss meeting to assemble a
list of candidate names of sun4 machines, and then using athinfo to
collect information about them. For those who want to follow along,
relevant files in my homedir are:
~/tmp/solpart.2003 Collected data
~/tmp/solpart-script Commands used
~/scripts/solpart Script to read solpart discuss meeting
~/tools/mathinfo.c Parallelized athinfo tool
