Due to circumstances beyond the control of the Tier2 in Edinburgh has become inaccessible. Given this we had to rush into deployment a new Tier3 at very short (2 days). The short story is that ARC6+HTCondor are great systems for deploying a new cluster from scratch on kit you fully control. The first time weContinue reading Mend and Make-Do

OK, so you did it. You touched the thing you weren’t supposed to. In our case this involved loading a bunch of disk arrays and storage servers into the back of a car, driving them half way across Edinburgh and then unloading them/re-assembling them a few pieces at a time. Once unpacked and re-assembled weContinue reading A tale of 3 disk servers

OK, so this is our first post. This is how we setup the Edinburgh wordpress (the first time). Get rid of firewalld: First Setup Docker: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/centos/ After this we need a db for wordpress which can be setup using a docker container: Next install a modern mysql client: Now setup the db for wordpress: NowContinue reading Setting up Edinburgh wordpress using docker

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