…andersonfam.org is back in all its glory and splendor….errr something like that.
The short version is that the OS hard drive of my previous webserver died a very hard death, and I was unable to salvage any data from it. Luckily, most of the data I had on the webserver was stored on a separate hard drive, which is chugging along healthily. The website is mostly back to it’s previous state, minus a few comments (due to my lack of adequate db backups) and minus search engine-friendly URLs (I need to figure out how lighttpd’s incarnation of mod_rewrite works). I know I won’t be able to get the comments back, but hopefully I’ll be able to get mod_rewrite under control in the next few days.
Oh – and the other thing I’m changing is the location of my photo gallery. I’ve moved my pics offsite, over to my smugmug gallery.
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Well we successfully got our datacenter at work moved. No one got hurt, and we didn’t lose any hardware in the process. I took a bunch of pictures of the process which I’ll post sometime when it’s not three in the morning.
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Yesterday we received, at work, a new server which will soon be tasked with running a high-load, SQL query intensive application. It’s a Quad-Intel Dual Core 2.66 GHz machine w/ 8GB of RAM and two 280GB RAID10 arrays. Since each of the 4 CPUs are dual-core, there are a total of 8 cpu cores to crunch through data. The catch, though, is that each of the cores are hyperthreading-enabled, so each of them shows up as two processors to the operating system. You do the math…the operating system thinks that it’s running on a 16-way system. I’d love to be running linux on this beast, as I believe you could squeeze quite a bit more raw processing power out of it…unfortunately, the application destined to run on this server is windows-only (for the time being). Nevertheless, geeks like myself seldom get to play with hardware as powerful as this, so I enjoyed myself immensely.
See this picture for a graphic illustration of the 16 CPUs.
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