[1614] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Machine moves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 16 01:06:36 1994
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 94 01:05:06 -0500
To: star-maintainers@MIT.EDU
First, on the status of charon: we made a machine proposal to IS which
led to us getting the three SS20s, and the proposal involved giving
back charon. If nobody in IS wants charon, we might be able to keep
it around, but I would like to move the name and all the services off
of it, and maybe use it to run IRC or keep it as the dialup machine
for old SIPB members. It's pretty old to be running production
services, and picayune won't be doing very much after the RTFM
migration.
Second: on some Sunday during Christmas break, I would like to
schedule an outage for all of the SIPB services, power of all of the
machines, and move the machines and desks around.
I would like to rearrange the desks like so:
-----
| |--
------| |
| | | ----- ---
--------- | | | | |
----- -------> | | | | |
| | | --| | | |
| | | | ---------
| | | | | |
----- ---------
That is, the three desks form a U shape with the open side facing
towards the rest of the room, and the carts move off to the side
towards the air conditioners. We should not use the carts for
permanent storage, since they are not terribly stable.
We will have seven server machines (three Maxines, a Sparc 5, and
three SS20s), which is more than two to a desk. We will probably only
have two VRC-16 heads for the Maxines, so if we stack the two AFS
servers and give them one head, we can put AFS and picayune on one
desk, news and news-transport on another desk, and penguin-lust and
anxiety-closet on the third desk. I think we will have enough desk
space for two CPUs and two stacks of disks per desk.
We should also use under-the-floor circuits instead of wall circuits
for power, but we knew that.
Comments?
