morwong
- member of the fish family Cheilodactylidae.
(source: Australian Museum)
How and when machine obtained:
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The original Morwong was bought in 1999 with money saved from Coke sales,
and with member donations.
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Morwong was upgraded in 2005 to a UP2000 dual Alpha 833HMz donated to us
by Fugro Seismic Imaging here in
Perth.
History prior to arrival at UCC:
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The original Morwong was purchased second-hand from a private company,
where it lived life as a server.
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The new morwong was part of an 8 machine (16 CPU) cluster doing
seismic anaylsis for FSI.
UCC history of machine:
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Bought at the end of 1999/early 2000, with strong support from members who
paid for 50% of the machine.
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A DEC Prioris (pictured right) was cannibalised to add extra disk slots.
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Successive powersupply deaths and faulty CPU logic caused Morwong to die in
early 2005. Thankfully another Alpha, Piggery
could be used with Morwong's disk array to keep services running.
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Morwong was later replaced properly with a UP2000, dual Alpha 833MHz EV68,
that was donated by FSI.
Current machine tasks:
- General purpose user machine, NIS master.
Current software configuration:
- Digital Unix (Tru64) 5.1B
Current hardware configuration:
- 2x 833MHz Alpha EV68 processors with 4MB cache
- 2GB RAM
- 2x SCSI disks (what size?)
Future plans for machine:
- Retire as NIS master with the move to LDAP
Special notes:
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The onboard Adaptec SCSI card in the UP2000 does not play nicely with
Tru64 and needs to be disabled.
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The SCSI card we're using is too tall for the case. To fasten the lid
down to the case, some engineering was required with motherboard risers,
washers and bolts.
Thanks:
- All those that donated towards the first machine;
- Fugro Seismic Imaging for their donation of the new machine;
- PXY and TRS for getting the new machine working; and
- Hewlett-Packard, who provided us with Tru64 licensing, gratis
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