smj wrote:
lparsons wrote:
For right now I'm the only user of our SGIs >90% of the time so I won't be setting up nekoware at the moment.
If you can answer, what are all those SGIs being used for? Be as vague or specific as you like or can be. I'm just curious - I like to know what they're being used for at those sites where they're still in production.
Thanks!
I'll give the short, politically-correctified version of the flock and it's status here. If you're curious beyond what I state here drop me a PM and I can fill you in on more gory details.
Basically, the SGIs that we have - the whole collection of icons in my sig - were all acquired for doing structural biology and molecular modelling. Back in 2004 or so when we last cut a check to SGI (for the Fuels and the half-rack Altix) that was the way to go. Now the only one in that cast that is powered up as of this afternoon is one Fuel (the subject of this thread, as it happens) which is our NIS master. Of course, as my personal workstation is the only NIS client that cares, I guess it is rather silly to keep it running right now.
On a semi-tangential note, in the discussion on the icons I had suggested that it would be neat to be able to place the icons upside-down to indicate disabled systems. If I were able to do that, over half the icons would be inverted in my current situation (including the tall rack Altix through none of its own fault).
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