martello

1. Italian name for the shark Sphyrna zygaena

How and When the Machine was Obtained

• Purchased as parts in 2004 from user donations and profits from coke sales
• It took until the beginning of 2005 to aquire the SATA card for the disk array.

History Prior to Life in the UCC

• None. This machine was UCC built.

History at the UCC

• Martello was built and was being used as a fast user box until the SATA card finally arrived. Then it was converted into the new fileserver to replace morwong.
• In setting up the new fileserver and optimising the disk array, MSH discovered not only an ext3 bug in the Linux kernel, but an ext2 bug as well.

Current Machine Tasks

• Serving /home
• Number crunching and compiling, it's just soooo fast!

Current Software Configuration

• Debian Etch AMD64
• Linux 2.6
• LVM on top of RAID 5 for the /home array
• LDAP master for authentication

Current Hardware Configuration

• Dual AMD Opteron 242 CPUs (1.6GHz, AMD64)
• Tyan Motherboard (k8s pro S2882)
• Seagate and Western Digital SATA disk /home array
• 10krpm WD root disk
• PCI-X Sil3124 4-port SATA card

Future Plans for the Machine

• None

Special Notes

• Originally we had a Promise SX8 SATA card, but all the drivers sucked too much. In-kernel ones were too slow with >1 drive, and Promise's own ones are unmaintained for newer kernels.

Thanks

• [TRS] (James Andrewartha);
• [DAG] (Bernard Blackham);
• [MSH] (Matt Johnston);
• and everyone who donated for the machine

Related Sites

• None