News
November 6th, 2011
Installed 48 Xeon X5690 CPUs running at 3.47GHz each.
System redesigned based on Debian GNU/Linux and KVM
March 30th, 2008
Installed 20 Xeon E5450 CPUs @ 3.0GHz each
September 8th, 2006
njal:~ > uptime
12:33:46 up 391 days, 21:43...
August 8th, 2006
Acquired an additional 52 CPU cluster, based on 26 Intel Dual Core Xeon Processors.
Redesigned system based on Gentoo Linux and the Xen hypervisor.
February 18th, 2006
Constructed an
AMD Opteron dual-core machine; our new webserver.
September 7th, 2005
7 compute-nodes have been repaired.
April 6th, 2005
Recovered from air conditioning failure.
Replaced SCSI controler on file server.
Upgraded memory in master node.
February 28th, 2005
Memory upgrade to all compute-nodes and file servers completed!
February 14th, 2005
SB power glitch; Njal is back online.
January 12th, 2005
System updated and installed memory upgrades on nodes a1-a20.
November 16th, 2004
njal:~ > uptime
12:17:45 up 365 days, 15:50...
November 9th, 2004
Check out the Ganglia web frontend!
May 10th, 2004
Kernel update to all compute-nodes.
April 07th, 2004
Restored nodes a6 and a27. Completed system updates.
March 12th, 2004
All systems are fine. Installed Intel compilers in Feb.
January 1st, 2004
New system is running very well; added fftw.
December 1st, 2003
System has been repaired and upgraded.
November 12th, 2003
System is down until further notice.
October 6th, 2003
The new PDU arrived and a1-a22 are back up.
August 27th, 2003
PBS has been fixed.
August 20th, 2003
HP ProCurve has been replaced. Njal is back up with reduced
capability until the replacement PDU arrives. PBS is also
malfunctioning.
August 14-15th, 2003
Power failure burns out a PDU (Power Distribution Unit) and the HP
ProCurve switch. Knocked offline are 22 nodes.
July 19th, 2003
Libgoto - a high-performance BLAS by Kazushige Goto - has been installed.
June 1st, 2003
The library problem with mpiCC on nodes b1 and b2 has been fixed.
May 8th, 2003
We have replaced the HP Pro Curve. Njal is operational again.
May 1st, 2003
The HP Pro Curve Switch has failed; we are waiting for a replacement from Racksaver.
February 23th, 2003
System overhaul completed: Open PBS v2.3, MPICH v1.2.5, LAM/MPI v6.5.9, and Mpiexec.
February 5th, 2003
GSL (GNU Scientific Library) is now available.
January 24th, 2003
CVS is now available on Njal.
October 1st, 2002
The new Njal web site is up.
September 10th, 2002
Michael Martino has joined the system administration team.
July 22nd, 2002
The new storage servers are now on-line.
June 26th, 2002
The official Njal web site is up.
June 1st, 2002
Joseph Spadavecchia is
now the system administrator of Njal.
May 12th, 2002
Upgrade is mostly complete, new storage servers are still off-line.
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