Author Archives: Catherine E. Pitt

Air flow

One of the department’s compute clusters has recently had an increase in usage. The air conditioning in its room is not keeping up with the load and some hot spots have developed. We are going to rearrange the room to … Continue reading

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Thermal paste

We spent a lot of Monday tracking down a problem on one of the servers which hosts several important services, including the department’s remote access services. When the server failed at the weekend the services automatically failed over to another … Continue reading

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