FreeSide On The Web

FreeSide have recently acquired a grand total of 27 P4 2.4GHz PC which have been “saved” from being disposed of. Many thanks to the department and all involved in making this happen.

With 27 machines (Even without memory) we can keep FreeSide running for a long time to come. However, with new machines come new ideas. It has already been mentioned by Jonty to create a Hadoop cluster (http://hadoop.apache.org/) a scalable distributed system. Sound cool, but we’ll see :).

From the new machines, we have put 2 more into use and finished installing a couple of others. These include gaia, the replacement for dagger, terra, the new FreeSide console machine, yxorp, which will soon be our new proxy and finally, bladeswitch has finally been completed as out redundent web load balancer.

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