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Soon (Feb/2014), we'll have to power down the Dell Racks and grab one L6-30 circuit supplying power to those racks and use it to power up the new Microway servers.

That leaves some spare L6-30 circuits (the Dell racks use 4 each), so we could contemplate grabbing two and powering up two more shelves of the Blue Sky Studio hardware. That would double the Hadoop cluster and the bss24 queue when needed (total of 100 job slots), and offer access to 1.2 TB of memory. This hardware is generally powered off when not in use.

The new Microway hardware is identical to the GPU-HPC hardware we bought minus the GPUs. A total of 8 1U servers will offer

• 256 GB of memory per node (2,048 GB total … that's amazing because if you add the GPU nodes memory footprint, the total for the rack becomes 3,328 GB in 18U of rack space).

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