[17837] in athena10
Re: Current status of NEUTRON-STAR, PACKAGE-FUSION, and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Vasiliev)
Sat Nov 27 01:05:16 2021
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From: Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:04:59 +0900
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To: Cel Skeggs <cela@mit.edu>
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Hi Cel,
I honestly don't know if anyone is still even using those, given that the
last person I know who cared about them was me back in 2015 or so. Unless
someone already repurposed those, you can probably decommission at least
the ARM laptop.
Cheers,
Victor.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:03 AM Cel Skeggs <cela@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi Debathena maintainers,
>
> SIPB Hardware Operations (HWOPS) is surveying the current machines in
> the SMR, to determine which servers need to be on UPS power, which
> servers don't need UPS power, and which servers can be completely
> decommissioned and removed from the rack.
>
> As far as we can tell, NEUTRON-STAR, PACKAGE-FUSION, and HECATONCHEIRES
> appear to be the current Debathena machines in the SMR. Our current
> understanding is that these machines are not used for online production
> services, but rather used for building packages for Debathena, and
> therefore would be able to be shut off during a power outage without
> causing any serious problems. Correspondingly, we believe that they do
> not require UPS power. Could you let us know whether this seems correct?
> If this were the case, it would help us limit our power consumption and
> reduce the budgetary impact of buying new UPSes.
>
> Thank you,
> Cel Skeggs
> SIPB HWOPS
>
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Hi Cel,<div><br></div><div>I honestly don't know if an=
yone is still even using those, given that the last person I know who cared=
about them was me back in 2015 or so.=C2=A0 Unless someone already repurpo=
sed those, you can probably decommission=C2=A0at least the ARM laptop.</div=
><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>=C2=A0 Victor.</div></div><br><div c=
lass=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 20, =
2021 at 8:03 AM Cel Skeggs <<a href=3D"mailto:cela@mit.edu">cela@mit.edu=
</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:=
0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">=
Hi Debathena maintainers,<br>
<br>
SIPB Hardware Operations (HWOPS) is surveying the current machines in <br>
the SMR, to determine which servers need to be on UPS power, which <br>
servers don't need UPS power, and which servers can be completely <br>
decommissioned and removed from the rack.<br>
<br>
As far as we can tell, NEUTRON-STAR, PACKAGE-FUSION, and HECATONCHEIRES <br=
>
appear to be the current Debathena machines in the SMR. Our current <br>
understanding is that these machines are not used for online production <br=
>
services, but rather used for building packages for Debathena, and <br>
therefore would be able to be shut off during a power outage without <br>
causing any serious problems. Correspondingly, we believe that they do <br>
not require UPS power. Could you let us know whether this seems correct? <b=
r>
If this were the case, it would help us limit our power consumption and <br=
>
reduce the budgetary impact of buying new UPSes.<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
Cel Skeggs<br>
SIPB HWOPS<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>
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