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How/where the 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 arriving to UCC
- Was running Solaris 8 as an Oracle server for ERG
- Belonged to someone else before that
UCC machine history
- 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.
- Gone now.
Current machine tasks
- Serving /services
- Serving /away
- Tape backup server
- NIS slave
Tinderboxing GNOME
Current software configuration
- Solaris 9
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
Future plans for the machine
- Offer developer accounts for some dtrace love
Thanks to:
- [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.
