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posted by Wayne Chang on Nov. 19, 2013, 1:40 a.m. (1 day ago)

howdy. i'm reading the official docs for autodesk flame and for wiretap, but that entire world is quite new to me. Can anyone suggest some reading/learning materials so i can better understand the overall autodesk "IFF" world, and how the pieces work together? thanks in advance! -w To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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howdy. i'm reading the official docs for autodesk flame and for wiretap, but that entire world is quite new to me. Can anyone suggest some reading/learning materials so i can better understand the overall autodesk "IFF" world, and how the pieces work together? thanks in advance! -w To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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posted by Greg Whynott on Nov. 19, 2013, 10:20 a.m. (1 day ago)

I'm looking for the qualoth license server binary for linux, qlserver. its not in the RPM that is available for linux downloads, and it takes a day or two for them to respond so i was hoping someone could send it to me today. just need the license server binary, "qlserver". if you happen to have this, would you mind sending it to me off list please? thanks! -g

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I'm looking for the qualoth license server binary for linux, qlserver. its not in the RPM that is available for linux downloads, and it takes a day or two for them to respond so i was hoping someone could send it to me today. just need the license server binary, "qlserver". if you happen to have this, would you mind sending it to me off list please? thanks! -g

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posted by Terry Dale on Nov. 19, 2013, 11:10 a.m. (1 day ago)

Hey what are people using on the desktop these days for 3D monitors. We have been using the LG LG D2342P-BN that has been replaced by the LG D2343P-BN but I have also heard they are no longer going to make 3D monitors. Anyone one have preferences to what to use? Must be passive glasses.   Thanks -Terry     Terry Dale, V.P.  Systems and Infrastructure p:416.682.5258 | c: 416.993.8485 | f: 416.682.5209 Arc Productions Ltd. | 230 Richmond Street East | Toronto, ON M5A 1P4 www.arcproductions.com

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Hey what are people using on the desktop these days for 3D monitors. We have been using the LG LG D2342P-BN that has been replaced by the LG D2343P-BN but I have also heard they are no longer going to make 3D monitors. Anyone one have preferences to what to use? Must be passive glasses.   Thanks -Terry     Terry Dale, V.P.  Systems and Infrastructure p:416.682.5258 | c: 416.993.8485 | f: 416.682.5209 Arc Productions Ltd. | 230 Richmond Street East | Toronto, ON M5A 1P4 www.arcproductions.com

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posted by John Hickson on Nov. 19, 2013, 11:50 a.m. (1 day ago)

Hey everyone, Thanks for the feedback, I see a lot of people have updated their profiles already, Don't forget to update your start dates for the company already associated with your account.   Also, if your company information is incorrect, or if you are missing the logo, please send the information to content@studiosysadmins.com   For people that need the link :) ...  http://www.studiosysadmins.com   Thanks; John Hickson

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Hey everyone, Thanks for the feedback, I see a lot of people have updated their profiles already, Don't forget to update your start dates for the company already associated with your account.   Also, if your company information is incorrect, or if you are missing the logo, please send the information to content@studiosysadmins.com   For people that need the link :) ...  http://www.studiosysadmins.com   Thanks; John Hickson

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posted by William Shortell on Nov. 19, 2013, 2:20 p.m. (1 day ago)

11/21: NUKE 8 Preview & Future Technologies Event @ RFX Please join RFX & The Foundry on Thursday, November 21st for The NUKE 8 Preview & Future Technologies Event. Matt Plec and Deke Kincaid of The Foundry will be showing off features of the soon-to-be-released NUKE 8, demonstrating Deep Compositing, and more while Simon Robinson, Founder and Chief Scientist, will be on hand to discuss future technologies. Food & drink will be served, so plan to come early & stay late to get your fill of networking and beer! TOPICS COVERED: NUKE 8 Sneak Peek Foundry Future Technology Preview NUKE Deep Compositing HIERO Session MARI Session Guest Speaker Q&A Session DATE & TIME: Thursday, November 21st 2013 6:30 - Meet & Greet 7:30 - Presentations 9:30 - Drinks & Discussion LOCATION: RFX Inc 748 Seward St. Hollywood, CA 90038 323-962-7400 MORE INFO & REGISTRATION http://www.rfx.com/events/98 -- William C. Shortell CEO Web: www.illuvatar.com Email: bill@illuvatar.com Cell (310) 753-1774 The information contained in this e-mail message (including any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it) is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this communication, or any of the information contained in or attached to it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you.

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11/21: NUKE 8 Preview & Future Technologies Event @ RFX Please join RFX & The Foundry on Thursday, November 21st for The NUKE 8 Preview & Future Technologies Event. Matt Plec and Deke Kincaid of The Foundry will be showing off features of the soon-to-be-released NUKE 8, demonstrating Deep Compositing, and more while Simon Robinson, Founder and Chief Scientist, will be on hand to discuss future technologies. Food & drink will be served, so plan to come early & stay late to get your fill of networking and beer! TOPICS COVERED: NUKE 8 Sneak Peek Foundry Future Technology Preview NUKE Deep Compositing HIERO Session MARI Session Guest Speaker Q&A Session DATE & TIME: Thursday, November 21st 2013 6:30 - Meet & Greet 7:30 - Presentations 9:30 - Drinks & Discussion LOCATION: RFX Inc 748 Seward St. Hollywood, CA 90038 323-962-7400 MORE INFO & REGISTRATION http://www.rfx.com/events/98 -- William C. Shortell CEO Web: www.illuvatar.com Email: bill@illuvatar.com Cell (310) 753-1774 The information contained in this e-mail message (including any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it) is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this communication, or any of the information contained in or attached to it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you.

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posted by Brian Krusic on Nov. 19, 2013, 4:30 p.m. (1 day ago)

Hi, I am attempting to mix 10Gb line cards in my Foundry SuperX's; FI-42XG and FI-62XG Is this possible? Doesn't look like it :( - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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Hi, I am attempting to mix 10Gb line cards in my Foundry SuperX's; FI-42XG and FI-62XG Is this possible? Doesn't look like it :( - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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posted by Saker Klippsten on Nov. 19, 2013, 6 p.m. (1 day ago)

After reading JF's Dump about Flame and S&W...? Can we setup a StudioSysadmin General Wiki we can all start contributing too.? The same questions come up over and over it would be great to have something more organized for everyone refer too and easier to update overtime. There could be different sections.. Flame ? ? ?-Networking? ? ? ?-Storage Config Switches ? ? ?-Cisco ? ? ?-Foundry ? ? ?-Force10? ? ? ? etc..? Networking ? ? ?-Linux ? ? ? ?-NFS Mounting blah blah.. ? ? ?-Windows ? ? ?-OSX If not I have no problem hosting one at our COLO on a VM ?for people to contribute and SSA can Link to that from its website. -S

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After reading JF's Dump about Flame and S&W...? Can we setup a StudioSysadmin General Wiki we can all start contributing too.? The same questions come up over and over it would be great to have something more organized for everyone refer too and easier to update overtime. There could be different sections.. Flame ? ? ?-Networking? ? ? ?-Storage Config Switches ? ? ?-Cisco ? ? ?-Foundry ? ? ?-Force10? ? ? ? etc..? Networking ? ? ?-Linux ? ? ? ?-NFS Mounting blah blah.. ? ? ?-Windows ? ? ?-OSX If not I have no problem hosting one at our COLO on a VM ?for people to contribute and SSA can Link to that from its website. -S

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posted by John Hickson on Nov. 19, 2013, 9:20 p.m. (1 day ago)

The next version of the site I will be adding in BOOKS. Which will allow multiple people to work on a proper book complete with indexes, glossary etc. Sometime in the new year...  :)   -John   On 2013-11-19 19:29, Klaus Steden wrote: I think there should also be a special section for anonymous horror stories (as cautionary tales from the trenches). From: Nick Allevato [nick.allevato@5thkind.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:10 PM To: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] SSA Wiki? can also contribute various resources (time, gear, cycles, etc). add pipeline to that section. even render farms. infrastructure. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Saker Klippsten <sakerk@gmail.com> wrote: After reading JF's Dump about Flame and S&W...  Can we setup a StudioSysadmin General Wiki we can all start contributing too.  The same questions come up over and over it would be great to have something more organized for everyone refer too and easier to update overtime. There could be different sections.. Flame      -Networking       -Storage Config Switches      -Cisco      -Foundry      -Force10        etc..  Networking      -Linux        -NFS Mounting blah blah..      -Windows      -OSX If not I have no problem hosting one at our COLO on a VM  for people to contribute and SSA can Link to that from its website. -S To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe -- Nick Allevato | Systems Administrator  5th Kind Digital Asset Management www.5thkind.com | c: 661.645.3507

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The next version of the site I will be adding in BOOKS. Which will allow multiple people to work on a proper book complete with indexes, glossary etc. Sometime in the new year...  :)   -John   On 2013-11-19 19:29, Klaus Steden wrote: I think there should also be a special section for anonymous horror stories (as cautionary tales from the trenches). From: Nick Allevato [nick.allevato@5thkind.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:10 PM To: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] SSA Wiki? can also contribute various resources (time, gear, cycles, etc). add pipeline to that section. even render farms. infrastructure. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Saker Klippsten <sakerk@gmail.com> wrote: After reading JF's Dump about Flame and S&W...  Can we setup a StudioSysadmin General Wiki we can all start contributing too.  The same questions come up over and over it would be great to have something more organized for everyone refer too and easier to update overtime. There could be different sections.. Flame      -Networking       -Storage Config Switches      -Cisco      -Foundry      -Force10        etc..  Networking      -Linux        -NFS Mounting blah blah..      -Windows      -OSX If not I have no problem hosting one at our COLO on a VM  for people to contribute and SSA can Link to that from its website. -S To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe -- Nick Allevato | Systems Administrator  5th Kind Digital Asset Management www.5thkind.com | c: 661.645.3507

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posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Nov. 20, 2013, 3 a.m.

I was having no end of trouble getting the dedicated IPMI network port to work on some SuperMicro servers until I ran across the following: http://serverfault.com/questions/361940/configuring-supermicro-ipmi-to-use-one-of-the-lan-interfaces-instead-of-the-ipmi Turns out you can also configure this property through the web interface (assuming it is up and running in "passthrough mode" on the first Ethernet port and you can actually get to it), but sending "raw" IPMI commands with ipmicfg made me feel all powerful. JF

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I was having no end of trouble getting the dedicated IPMI network port to work on some SuperMicro servers until I ran across the following: http://serverfault.com/questions/361940/configuring-supermicro-ipmi-to-use-one-of-the-lan-interfaces-instead-of-the-ipmi Turns out you can also configure this property through the web interface (assuming it is up and running in "passthrough mode" on the first Ethernet port and you can actually get to it), but sending "raw" IPMI commands with ipmicfg made me feel all powerful. JF

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posted by Susan Fong on Nov. 12, 2013, 1:05 p.m. (9 days ago)

Okay, I'm mostly a lurker but had an idea.? I have zero time to work on said idea, but I'm curious what others think. There has been a groundswell of support in recent years for industry standards, convergence on 3rd party apps, and general 'unification' of our pipelines across studios.? More and more code is being shared from openexr 2.0 to opensubdiv and openvdb. What about license servers?? Aren't there some products that you might kill the engineers on sight for their crappy licensing?? What if smart people like you wrote an open source license server solution designed specifically with large farm scalability in mind?? Getting all farm run apps to converge on a license server solution when cost is involved is difficult.? But if cost isn't involved... It might make everyone's life easier if we had a standard open source solution where cost wasn't part of the equation. thoughts? s

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Okay, I'm mostly a lurker but had an idea.? I have zero time to work on said idea, but I'm curious what others think. There has been a groundswell of support in recent years for industry standards, convergence on 3rd party apps, and general 'unification' of our pipelines across studios.? More and more code is being shared from openexr 2.0 to opensubdiv and openvdb. What about license servers?? Aren't there some products that you might kill the engineers on sight for their crappy licensing?? What if smart people like you wrote an open source license server solution designed specifically with large farm scalability in mind?? Getting all farm run apps to converge on a license server solution when cost is involved is difficult.? But if cost isn't involved... It might make everyone's life easier if we had a standard open source solution where cost wasn't part of the equation. thoughts? s

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posted by Rob LaRose on Nov. 12, 2013, 4:30 p.m. (9 days ago)

Are any of you using Backupify or a similar system for backing up / archiving google apps data? Thoughts? --Rob rob larose | engineer | rock paper scissors | 212-255-6446 | www.rockpaperscissors.com **NOTE OUR NEW STREET ADDRESS: 245 Fifth Ave, 23rd Fl, New York, NY 10016. Our billing and remittance stays the same

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Are any of you using Backupify or a similar system for backing up / archiving google apps data? Thoughts? --Rob rob larose | engineer | rock paper scissors | 212-255-6446 | www.rockpaperscissors.com **NOTE OUR NEW STREET ADDRESS: 245 Fifth Ave, 23rd Fl, New York, NY 10016. Our billing and remittance stays the same

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posted by Dan Young on Nov. 12, 2013, 11:55 p.m. (9 days ago)

Really basic stuff here, but I'm not as versed with ultra modern-backup/archival at the moment. I guess what I'm interested in is archival, but to leave that topic alone, effectively what I'm after is; - a single-loader LTO (ideally 6, acceptable 5) that can be compatible, and properly so with 10.8 MacOSX - IDEALLY thunderbolt, acceptably SAS and the iMac this is intended for will have an external PCI cardcage over thunderbolt - ability to support using TAPES as if they were any regular old FILESYSTEM Is LTFS really want I'm interested in? Or is it all just a bit more simple than that? I won't be needing software, I effectively want 1.6tb LTO tapes to run as if they were harddrives when they're loaded in the single loader. Cheers, DY

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Really basic stuff here, but I'm not as versed with ultra modern-backup/archival at the moment. I guess what I'm interested in is archival, but to leave that topic alone, effectively what I'm after is; - a single-loader LTO (ideally 6, acceptable 5) that can be compatible, and properly so with 10.8 MacOSX - IDEALLY thunderbolt, acceptably SAS and the iMac this is intended for will have an external PCI cardcage over thunderbolt - ability to support using TAPES as if they were any regular old FILESYSTEM Is LTFS really want I'm interested in? Or is it all just a bit more simple than that? I won't be needing software, I effectively want 1.6tb LTO tapes to run as if they were harddrives when they're loaded in the single loader. Cheers, DY

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posted by John Hickson on Nov. 13, 2013, 9:15 a.m. (8 days ago)

Hey everyone, Getting closer.. Monday November 18th we will be launching the new site. Packed with a ton of new features as well as expansion to many of the old features. If you have not sent me your information yet, please do so by end of day Friday :) Remember, this info is just for your company - not personal information, which you will be able to update yourself on the new site :)   COMPANY Name (to be displayed) Logo (280width x 175height jpg - preferably on white background) URL (to your main website) Description (1-2 paragraphs about your company) COMPANY OFFICE (for each listing) Location (City, Region, Country) Address + Postal/Zip Code Latitude/Longitude - for map integration Please indicate which office is your corporate headquarters COMPANY CONTACT/MEDIA LINKS (for main office + other office specific links) Any email, phone #s, or URLs (web links, blogs, twitter, facebook links etc)   Thank you; John Hickson

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Hey everyone, Getting closer.. Monday November 18th we will be launching the new site. Packed with a ton of new features as well as expansion to many of the old features. If you have not sent me your information yet, please do so by end of day Friday :) Remember, this info is just for your company - not personal information, which you will be able to update yourself on the new site :)   COMPANY Name (to be displayed) Logo (280width x 175height jpg - preferably on white background) URL (to your main website) Description (1-2 paragraphs about your company) COMPANY OFFICE (for each listing) Location (City, Region, Country) Address + Postal/Zip Code Latitude/Longitude - for map integration Please indicate which office is your corporate headquarters COMPANY CONTACT/MEDIA LINKS (for main office + other office specific links) Any email, phone #s, or URLs (web links, blogs, twitter, facebook links etc)   Thank you; John Hickson

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posted by Saker Klippsten on Nov. 13, 2013, 5:25 p.m. (8 days ago)

We are doing some Edit Suite updates here and wanted to see what people are doing for surround sound speakers / system. I am in the framing just completed so I am running cable and figured its a good time as any to upgrade to 7.1 for the future even though most of our work still only requires 2 Channel. We got a few clients who wanted to Monitor in 5.1 or 7.1 so I wanted to price out some systems if anything I will have things pre-wired for it.? Anyone use Genelec? Thanks! -Saker

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We are doing some Edit Suite updates here and wanted to see what people are doing for surround sound speakers / system. I am in the framing just completed so I am running cable and figured its a good time as any to upgrade to 7.1 for the future even though most of our work still only requires 2 Channel. We got a few clients who wanted to Monitor in 5.1 or 7.1 so I wanted to price out some systems if anything I will have things pre-wired for it.? Anyone use Genelec? Thanks! -Saker

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posted by Brian Krusic on Nov. 13, 2013, 5:40 p.m. (8 days ago)

Hi, Kind of an odd ball question. Is there any way to have no locks on NFS mounted home dirs and have Mac Mail work properly? TBird seems fine w/o em. Just curious if any one has messed with this. I know I know, its kind of a stupid question for a stupid application for a stupid OS. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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Hi, Kind of an odd ball question. Is there any way to have no locks on NFS mounted home dirs and have Mac Mail work properly? TBird seems fine w/o em. Just curious if any one has messed with this. I know I know, its kind of a stupid question for a stupid application for a stupid OS. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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posted by Brian Krusic on Nov. 14, 2013, 3:15 p.m. (7 days ago)

Ok, back at this again. Curious if any one knows how to bypass the dialogue button that keeps popping up during archives? Some like missing footage etc when in fact there is no missing anything.  Except for my foot to insert in this things a#$! My IT guy has to get up in the wee AM now and again, VPN in and press OK. At least we have a script that informs us when it happens. Am I stupid here, any one else dealing with this? - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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Ok, back at this again. Curious if any one knows how to bypass the dialogue button that keeps popping up during archives? Some like missing footage etc when in fact there is no missing anything.  Except for my foot to insert in this things a#$! My IT guy has to get up in the wee AM now and again, VPN in and press OK. At least we have a script that informs us when it happens. Am I stupid here, any one else dealing with this? - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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Solarflare onload adapters

posted by Brian Krusic on Nov. 15, 2013, 5 p.m. (6 days ago)

Any one use these bad boys? http://solarflare.com/10GbE-Onload-Server-Adapters Lotta hype. Seem like some TCP offload/etc... good-ness. I'm using the regular Solars. Thing is its all PCIe Gen 2. Calomel had a most fascinating write up on Gen2 vs Gen3. Key points pasted below; We highly recommend getting an interface card supporting PCIe due to their high bandwidth and low power usage. Note, PCIe version 2.x has a 20% bandwidth overhead which PCIe version 3.x does not. PCIe 2.0 delivers 5 GT/s (GT/s is Gigatransfers per second), but employs an 8b/10b encoding scheme which results in a 20 percent overhead on the raw bit rate. PCIe 3.0 removes the requirement for encoding and uses a technique called "scrambling" in which "a known binary polynomial" is applied to a data stream in a feedback topology. Because the scrambling polynomial is known, the data can be recovered by running it through a feedback topology using the inverse polynomial and also uses a 128b/130b encoding scheme, reducing the overhead to approximately 1.5%, as opposed to the 20% overhead of 8b/10b encoding used by PCIe 2.0. The actual article; https://calomel.org/network_performance.html Thoughts? - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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Any one use these bad boys? http://solarflare.com/10GbE-Onload-Server-Adapters Lotta hype. Seem like some TCP offload/etc... good-ness. I'm using the regular Solars. Thing is its all PCIe Gen 2. Calomel had a most fascinating write up on Gen2 vs Gen3. Key points pasted below; We highly recommend getting an interface card supporting PCIe due to their high bandwidth and low power usage. Note, PCIe version 2.x has a 20% bandwidth overhead which PCIe version 3.x does not. PCIe 2.0 delivers 5 GT/s (GT/s is Gigatransfers per second), but employs an 8b/10b encoding scheme which results in a 20 percent overhead on the raw bit rate. PCIe 3.0 removes the requirement for encoding and uses a technique called "scrambling" in which "a known binary polynomial" is applied to a data stream in a feedback topology. Because the scrambling polynomial is known, the data can be recovered by running it through a feedback topology using the inverse polynomial and also uses a 128b/130b encoding scheme, reducing the overhead to approximately 1.5%, as opposed to the 20% overhead of 8b/10b encoding used by PCIe 2.0. The actual article; https://calomel.org/network_performance.html Thoughts? - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green.

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posted by Laurence Schuler on Nov. 16, 2013, 10:40 a.m. (5 days ago)

Our group was just given 11 storage units containing 16 2T drives. They are no-name units with built in PC and some sort of RAID controller (unknown *which* controller). 3 GBit Ethernet interfaces. What would you do with them? -- Laurence Schuler (Larry) Laurence.Schuler@nasa.gov Systems Support ADNET Systems, Inc Scientific Visualization Studio http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 606.4 phone: 1-301-286-1799

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Our group was just given 11 storage units containing 16 2T drives. They are no-name units with built in PC and some sort of RAID controller (unknown *which* controller). 3 GBit Ethernet interfaces. What would you do with them? -- Laurence Schuler (Larry) Laurence.Schuler@nasa.gov Systems Support ADNET Systems, Inc Scientific Visualization Studio http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 606.4 phone: 1-301-286-1799

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posted by John Hickson on Nov. 17, 2013, 11:35 a.m. (4 days ago)

Just over 5 years since the initial launch of the StudioSysAdmin community, we have just launched the new version of our website. Over 2000 members strong and growing, with members from 43 countries. Many improvements as well as brand new features have been added! New Features/Enhancements. Expanded Member Profile (ability to add multiple companies and social links) Expanded Job Board (more fields for posting jobs) Expanded Message Board (you can now post threads on-line) Now with +1's and Comments Member Productions (you can now let people know which productions you have worked on) Company Location Maps (for offices that send in their coordinates) Expanded Article Section (sponsors and non-commercial members can post) Video Links (to YouTube and Vimeo) for demo reels, how-to vids, etc Downloads for scripts, presentations, etc Expanded Classifieds to help sell your used equipment Website Digests - Daily, Weekly, or Monthly summary of new content on the site Real-Time Updates - Get Real-Time e-mails for sections of the site as they are added Auto Registration and Password Reset - time saver for me :) Plus, more features and tweaks on there way, getting ready to launch CreativityReactor for artists in January. I have set everyone's account to receive a daily digest, as well as real-time update for events. So please login and start working on updating your profiles today :) If the company information is incorrect and/or missing, please let us know and we will add it so you properly set up your profiles.  Currently, only admin can update Company profiles  (Companies, Offices, and Company Links). Please report any issues directly to content@studiosysadmins.com so they can be taken care of ASAP. Thank you; John Hickson

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Just over 5 years since the initial launch of the StudioSysAdmin community, we have just launched the new version of our website. Over 2000 members strong and growing, with members from 43 countries. Many improvements as well as brand new features have been added! New Features/Enhancements. Expanded Member Profile (ability to add multiple companies and social links) Expanded Job Board (more fields for posting jobs) Expanded Message Board (you can now post threads on-line) Now with +1's and Comments Member Productions (you can now let people know which productions you have worked on) Company Location Maps (for offices that send in their coordinates) Expanded Article Section (sponsors and non-commercial members can post) Video Links (to YouTube and Vimeo) for demo reels, how-to vids, etc Downloads for scripts, presentations, etc Expanded Classifieds to help sell your used equipment Website Digests - Daily, Weekly, or Monthly summary of new content on the site Real-Time Updates - Get Real-Time e-mails for sections of the site as they are added Auto Registration and Password Reset - time saver for me :) Plus, more features and tweaks on there way, getting ready to launch CreativityReactor for artists in January. I have set everyone's account to receive a daily digest, as well as real-time update for events. So please login and start working on updating your profiles today :) If the company information is incorrect and/or missing, please let us know and we will add it so you properly set up your profiles.  Currently, only admin can update Company profiles  (Companies, Offices, and Company Links). Please report any issues directly to content@studiosysadmins.com so they can be taken care of ASAP. Thank you; John Hickson

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posted by Dave Kelly on Nov. 18, 2013, 7:54 a.m. (3 days ago)

I have 3 Centos 6.4 nodes fiber attached to a StorNext SAN. I am exporting the same volume on all three. The share is exclusive to a system called Avere which is its own cluster and mounts the NFS share I provide. I would like to get all 3 nodes in on the action but at the very least a failover would be nice. I have tried rrdns but once the system mounts a share, even if that node disappears it will wait until that node is back, does not do another dns lookup so that was a fail. Does anyone have any experiance with NFS loadbalance or failover? The wall I am running into appears to be the NFS connection once established becomes persistent.

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I have 3 Centos 6.4 nodes fiber attached to a StorNext SAN. I am exporting the same volume on all three. The share is exclusive to a system called Avere which is its own cluster and mounts the NFS share I provide. I would like to get all 3 nodes in on the action but at the very least a failover would be nice. I have tried rrdns but once the system mounts a share, even if that node disappears it will wait until that node is back, does not do another dns lookup so that was a fail. Does anyone have any experiance with NFS loadbalance or failover? The wall I am running into appears to be the NFS connection once established becomes persistent.