manbo

1. an ocean sunfish; a sunfish; a headfish

How and When This Machine was Obtained

• Manbo was donated by ERG, gratis, just in time for Christmas 2004
• Some UCCans and a van transported it to the UCC and hauled it up the stairs

History Prior to Arrival at the UCC

• Was running Solaris 8 as an Oracle server for ERG
• Belonged to someone else before that

UCC History of the Machine

• Arrived upstairs and began taking up a significant amount of space in the clubroom. The Fresher Rep ([DAA]) exclaims "what the heck is that?!"
• A more conventional, non-three-phase power plug was attached (it only drew 5.5A, anyway) and it was booted and installed.
• Finally moved into the machine room (after rearranging the machine room).
• Impressive disk array was converted into the new /services, retiring meito.
• Tape changer (purchased from UCS) was installed in the top part because, according to [DAA], [JCF] and [DAG], "there's loads of space in here!"
• A Sun E4000 was purchased to provide us with additional CPU cards and power modules.
• An additional 11 GiB of RAM was purchased, and brought over from the USA by [MSH].
• A grant from Linux Australia allowed us to buy 14 400MHz CPUs and other sundries.

Current Machine Tasks

• Serving /services
• Serving /away
• Tape backup server
• NIS slave
• Tinderboxing GNOME

Current Software Configuration

• Solaris Express snv_36

Current Hardware Configuration

• Sun Enterprise E6000 chassis
• 14x UltraSparc 400MHz CPUs
• 11.5 GiB of RAM
• 2x D1000 wide differential SCSI arrays, with 18 x 18GB Cheetah HDDs
• 5 tape changer

• prtdiag -v
• prtpicl -v

Future Plans for the Machine

• Offer developer accounts for some dtrace love

Special Notes

• None

Thanks

• [NTU] (Nick Bannon) for securing the machine and doing stuff;
• ERG for donating it to us, gratis;
• [DAG] (Bernard Blackham);
• [TRS] (James Andrewartha);
• [MSH] (Matt Johnston) for lugging the RAM back from the US;
• [NTU], [TRS], [CAM], [SAF], [VEL], [JCF], [DAA], [MTL], [ZAR], and [AHC] for donating funds for the upgrade projects; and
• Linux Australia, who provided a grant that allowed us to upgrade the machine.

Related Sites

• ERG
• Sun Microsystems