2010 venus upgrade

Board from Moose: LANPARTY nF4 with an AMD 3800 X2

• Moose says: the two ethernet ports on that board are a Marvell SysKonnect GigE and an nVidia nForce

This page documents the installation and switchover of:

• the new D510MO which turned into the Union Street Media server, and
• the new AMD 3800x2.

Expenses

• LANPARTY nF4 with AMD 3800x2, Socket 939 version, + $125 from Moose
• Drives, used: 2 x 300G, $70 from Moose
• Memory, used: 2 x 1G, from Moose, + 2 x ??? gift from Barrington
• Case, used: gift from Barrington

Initial Patching & Hardening

• [x] 2010-07-23: Installed Solaris, ZFS root pool
• [x] Did not have to do adjustments to /etc/driver_aliases as we did for D510MO
• [x] Install recommended patch cluster 10/07
• [x] Install new pkg-get, "pkgutil" with Install pkgutil
• [x] Install wget
• [x] Install & run pca
• [x] Install jass
• [x] create daniel & denny accounts
• [x] install sudo
• [x] create a zone "mercury" /root/mercury.cfg
• [x] Install packages

CPU Comparison

To convert eighty, 100-200K images to thumbs and web size, the Atom D510 is about 5x faster: (image source: unknown)

To convert 65, 1-M images to thumbs and web size, the AMD3800x2 is about 15x faster: (image source: ~daniel/www/pride2008/pics/Cameron_MacLeod)

 mercnew: