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Run humongous jobs, and run them hundreds of times. Expect that having own equipment is most cost-effective, but reality-check against other options such as CAC's RedCloud service (not mutually exclusive).
Project status
4/17/13 (Wed): Oliver and Barry looked at Eldor's partitions. The /a and /b partitions are each 1.7TB in size. They looked like they had no data beyond that assigned as overhead by the OS.
Also, Barry recommends we use OS v6, such as Cent OS 6.x. (Currently using RH 5.x.)
4/5/13 (Fri): Decision made that ChemIT (CRCF) will host Eldor for at least 6 months. This will provide ChemIT more time to work with Jack, Liang and others on pricing out alternative hosting options, but in the meantime putting the server back under support. This includes Lulu coordinating with Liang and others on the timing of the server's move and its new OS install (see to-do's).
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