Yum Yum Yum
The advent of Scientific Linux x86_64 worker nodes (with Opteron CPUs) here at UW-HEP caused the need for a fair number of i386 shared library RPMs. That was the straw that broken the camel's back with respect to package management, so I finally set up a number of yum repositories to automate the installation of RPMs. It was a dirty complex job, but, like a lot of systems admistration work, it'll pay off big time in the long run.
Firefox and REVTex4
I installed Firefox 1.5 and REVTex4 on the cluster nodes just now. Well, actually, I just installed them once and CFengine installed them everywhere.
Phenomenology Cluster Has Been Migrated
The "Pheno cluster" has been dismantled. The system "falcon" still exists--but only to provide DHCP and printing services. It will be decommissioned after Pheno's printing environment has been migrated. (DHCP has already been migrated.) The system pheno.physics.wisc.edu will continue to exist, of course.
Desktops Have Arrived
The six new desktops arrived today. We're going to finally get rid of all the old PentiumII and Celeron systems Real Soon Now.
Desktops
We ordered six new desktops today... Asus motherboards... 3 GHz Pentium4 CPUs, 512 MB PC3200 DDR memory, Matrox Millenium G550 32MB Video... and nice Antec Sonata tower cases.
