Daniel Swan

When I was a youngster, fascinated with the IBM PC clones that existed in the back pages of my Dad’s electronics catalogues and the amazing specs (and price tags!) they had whilst I toiled away with a Dragon 32 (and later an Atari ST), I used to sit around and lazily spec out machines that could not possibly have existed at the time.  Sci-Fi computers if you will.   Things with such outrageous memory and disk that I thought I would never see the day.

Now for a paltry £15k we have a Dell R905 in the rack, replacing our 32 CPU G5 Xserve cluster.  Screenshots below because they make me happy :)

The rest of the day is basically going to be Simon and I pimping this out with software so we can start doing work on it.  And we do have a fairly big backlog of memory intensive stuff we want to do!

Thanks Debian Stable.  Living up to your name.  My first machine to reach 1000 days of uptime. :)