Dinh 2011/NOTES/2011-7-13

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Meangenemachine Upgrades[edit]

  1. Double checked that the motherboard will fit the ATX case
  2. Secured new CPUs to new MB
  3. Placed an even and thin layer of thermal compound onto the back of CPU. Wiped off thermal compounds from the back of the heatsinks.
  4. Placed the heatsink on top of the CPU. Directing heat to the top of the case for both CPUs
  5. Screwed the heatsinks on, making sure that the weight is evenly distributed. When done, lift MB and check that the screws are in.
  6. Make sure that the cpu fans are plugged in the designated slots.
  7. Placed all the RAM sticks into sockets, 2 per CPUs and in the closest slots to the CPUs.
  8. Removed wire from old MB, uncrew and remove old MB from case.
  9. Cleaned the case.
  10. Wired up the new MB, make sure to set the power jumper (because no on-board switch) and grounding jumpers correctly.
  11. Turned on power [ Note: a glitch occurred where system couldn't boot because the "chassis is open" ]
  12. We accessed the bios and checked that everything was running fine.
  13. Attached harddrives, NVIDIA 9800x GPU, and sound card => system failed to boot
  14. Removed NVIDIA 9800x GPU => system booted
  15. We went back to the ATI Radeon => system booted
  16. There was no bios upgrade required, system detected 24 cores and 32 GB of ram.
  17. We changed the bios setting to boot from old boot disk
  18. The system booted fine. We attached 2x2TB HDD, and one 640GB HDD
  19. Registered new IP with ACS
  20. Configured DHCP-only and restarted networking, new IP: 132.239.189.234
  21. Re-format new drives as ext3 using gparted. Add UUID to /etc/fstab/

Genemapster[edit]

  1. Formated /media/disk-1 as ext3 !

To do

  1. Need to upgrade to the newest NVIDIA driver and CUDA version for using SOAP3.
  2. Need to install SOAP3 and GPU-BLAST