This week we mounted the new servers in the Server Racks. The main server has been named Jarvis and the NAS has been named Ultron. It’s a Skynet tradition to name Skynet machines after famous Artificial Intelligence and Computer Systems from films and TV. We racked and booted them to check them and run some tests. Ultron has 16.6TB usable space from it’s 24TB RAID 5 configuration it is a lot better than the 2TB NAS we currently have. They…
As part of my work with the University of Limerick Computer Society I work as part of the team that run our server cluster (Skynet). We provide services to other Clubs & Societies in University of Limerick as well as the University of Limerick Student’s Union. Most of the equipment in our server room in the Student’s Union is over ten years old and we needed new equipment. I started looking for funding and pricing equipment in January 2017 and…