Welcome to the new Cluster

We're up and running on the new cluster at Exodus West. The hardware configuration is almost identical to what we had on the east coast, just a few time zones over. No doubt we'll be working out a few kinks over the next few days, so hang in there. Now that that's over with, please continue swimming naked.

Comments

Swimming naked?

[Drunken Coward]

Good lord, that's the last thing I want to imagine the /. crowd doing.

Exodus is big. Don't get lost!

[stefanlasiewski]

Let me tell you, those Exodus rooms are BIG, and oddly shaped. It's actually easy to get lost in there.

Just over a year ago, I was part of the IT team to move 50 computers from Exodus to another facility

We had all these computers in a cage in Big Room A. We needed to get all of the equipment to the loading dock, which was on the other side of this huge building.

So there we were, by the back entrance. Got the truck up to the loading dock, loaded some equipment. Then it was time to go back to the cage and get the second batch.

The guard opened the door for us, pointed us down one hallway, and shut the door. *click* Door's locked. We walked down the hallway, opened the door, and entered the cage room.

"Wait," said my friend "Let me make sure this is the right..." *click*

Like in a bad horror movie, the last person into the room let the door slam shut. So we were stuck.

So we walked around for a few minutes, trying to find our way.

"Wait, wait. We're going the wrong way!" said my friend, who had only been here once, and in a different part of the building.

So we turned around and traced our way back to the first door. The door, of course, is locked. We knocked. No answer. We pounded the door. Still no
answer. No intercom. No guard to open the door. The door could be opened in a fire, but that would set off the alarms, halon, whatever. This wasn't
a fire. We were just ... lost... and embarrassed...

So we tried a second hallway, hoping it would be a more direct route to the other door.

"It's this way" my friend said, "I think..."

After walking 100 ft down the hallway, turning left and walking down another hallway and turning past a few more corners, we came to a 4-way intersection, and NOTHING looked familiar. Just a long 100-ft hallway of identical cages in each direction. No landmarks, no maps... blank walls at the end of every hallway.

Being that it was almost Halloween, I half expected our numbers to start droping one-by-one.

So we proceded down a random hallway and came to a blank wall. No door. Turned around , tried another hallway. Blank wall.

"Where'd the fucking door go?"

"I don't know. Maybe we should split up."

"Shuttup. That's what they do in the fucking horror movies."

Eventually we found our way, and everyone survived... except I smashed my foot by dropping a 100-lb loading ramp 2 feet onto it.

But those were good times.

Re:Exodus is big. Don't get lost!

[swillden]

After walking 100 ft down the hallway, turning left and walking down another hallway and turning past a few more corners, we came to a 4-way intersection, and NOTHING looked familiar. Just a long 100-ft hallway of identical cages in each direction

Sounds like a D&D adventure:

DM: "Okay, you're walking down a hallway that's 100 feet long and then turns left. As you round the corner you notice a small pool of greenish slime puddled against the wall. All along the hallways are identical cages, on both sides."

Player 1: "What's in the cages?"

Player 2: "I take a closer look at the slime."

DM: "Lights. Hundreds of tiny red, green and white blinking lights. And something making whirring noises.

"The slime looks like slime. And it's greenish."

Player 1: "I wonder if the cages are full of some kind of flying insects with multi-colored eyes."

Player 2: "I stick my sword in the slime."

DM: "Your sword melts. If you want to find out what's in those cages, you'll have to open one..."

Player 1: "Let's keep walking."

Re:I have come to the conclusion...

[trentfoley]

I have too much (note I said much, not many) karma at the moment, and would like to burn some. Let it burn, baby burn!

Too much? Easily solved. Just post this link to Natalie Portman nude.. Works every time.

IP banned

[den_erpel]

Hm,

the /. ppl did not take over the "unban" list from the east cost. Just found out that our entire university got banned from the /. site :( since the proxy got banned, ...

Luckily there is squid and I have my box at home >:)

It was touch and go there when I was not able to access the geek news in the morning :x

Re:The New Cluster and Filters

[Anonymous Coward]

What kinda school blocks slashdot.com? Let us know so we can avoid going there.

Wow I never thought the day would come ...

[Anonymous Coward]

that a search for DMCA on slashdot would return nothing!

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