2008-01-28

scubadev

Scubadev's mysterious lack of speed continues to be a concern, especially since it is a baseline spec for the summit DR computers. Had a chat with Tim where we concluded that after the Starlink release is out of the way (1-2 weeks) we will take it down and turn it into a standalone gentoo box, then a standalone CentOS box. This should allow us to narrow down whether the problem is related to hardware, OS, or the integration in to the network.

1 comment:

Tim J said...

To illustrate the problem, in some benchmarks scubadev (a 3.0GHz woodcrest xeon with 16GB RAM) is slower than our little iMac (2.0GHz 64-bit core2 with 1.5GB RAM). This makes no sense. a 2.0 GHz AMD machine at UBC is the fastest so far for SCUBA-2 DR processing.