* @[garystiehr](http://twitter.com/garystiehr) Gb/s or GB/s? An order of magnitude can make a large difference ... [in reply to garystiehr](http://twitter.com/garystiehr/statuses/2499758846) [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/2504247739) * new 48TB DV4 is up and rock solid. Working on stabilizing the JR4 that goes with it. Some 10GbE cards are hard to find these days ... [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/2504274758) Powered by Twitter Tools.

We use Fedex and UPS to ship in the day job. Lots of our stuff is pretty sturdy, but some things simply do not like being bumped hard. Like disks. Or like Pegasus boxen, with many expensive cards sitting in the PCI-e slots. Awaiting pictures from the customer, but it looks like two of the Cell based units we shipped out (w/o Tesla cards, that should be arriving soon), got beat up in transit.

Start out from a known state … ` my $dryrun = false; my $debug = false; my $sanity = false; Heh ... Maybe I should create a function with a probability distribution (a fuzzy function) named "is_in_doubt()" so I can writemy $sanity = &is;_in_doubt();` (and yes, this is Perl … I just can’t bring myself to go back to a language that thinks indentation is a good and necessary thing for program structure … :( )

They are getting backlog serviced as fast as they can. Looks like they are clearing it out pretty quickly. This is good. Customers had been asking us about the reason for the delay. We speculated numerous possibilities. Most (all?) of them (my speculations) were wrong. That is good as well. I am thinking now that the problem is macroeconomic, not microeconomic. That is, its the entire ecosystem, not one company. Everyone gets walloped in a recession.

Released this morning Automated High Performance Computing Solutions Provide Alternative to Shared Virtual Private Server Clouds FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(Business Wire)– NewServers Inc., the leading provider of Hardware as a Service (HaaS) dedicated cloud servers, today announced a strategic partnership with high performance computing (HPC) provider Scalable Informatics that will provide cloud storage solutions capable of supporting HPC. NewServers will integrate Scalable Informatics' JackRabbit high-performance server storage solution into the company’s service.

All for the day job: First, our help system is now online. This allows us to provide an externally visible issue tracking and project management/tracking site for customers. Not just for our hardware. Scalable Informatics has been helping people support other peoples hardware for quite a while. Some of our biggest/best customers have not bought a single bit of hardware from us, but pay us to help them support, run, install, manage, ….

This is one of several memes customers are noting to us. They are worried, what happens if vendor X goes away, can I still get support/fixes/replacement parts for my gear? In the case of some of our competitors, the answer is a resounding and unqualified NO. In our case, our high performance JackRabbit systems, our value priced Delta-V, and our Pegasus deskside supercomputers, the answer is a resounding and unqualified YES.

* There seems to be an awful lot of pr0n types that follow ... I block them. Is this a losing battle? Should I just give in? [#](http://twitter.com/sijoe/statuses/2318023529) Powered by Twitter Tools.

I was looking up one of my favorite (silly) phrases after a long hard day getting mvsas to work correctly on a Pegasus workstation running Fedora. I won’t let this devolve into a Fedora bashing session, though Fedora does need it. That is what triggered this look though. I kept slogging at a number of Fedora misfeatures, until my efforts were rewarded. This resonated, and reminded me of one of my favorite (silly) phrases … … The beatings will continue until morale improves.

I’ve been talking about the woes of the area we live and work in. Canton is right outside Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan. Its a nice place for many reasons. But a tech haven? No. For a long time, we had lots of commercial supercomputing in this area. It was a good place to be w.r.t. this. But times, they are a-changing. CIO magazine has an article on “The Worst U.