 curr1.jpeg The business side of the rack... Somehow I managed to get an acceptable cable managemnt scheme worked out this time. (Well, sort of...). At least I can access the rack from the backside, a good thing if you want to change something. I even installed a LED light there! |
 curr2.jpeg Cable bundle emerging from the rack... It mostly contains Ethernet cables, power supply, SCSI and FC cables. On the bottom of the picture one can see a leg of the network equipment frame. |
 curr3.jpeg "The display wall" This are three displays connected to a 6-head Windows workstation (IBM Intellistation Z Pro). Also connected are two CRT monitors on the other side of the room. Also connect to these displays are a SCI Octane (dualhead) and the O2 (to the rightmost display). |
 curr4.jpeg Well, the big fat Origin 2100 and a VW320, mostly devoted to VHS video capture (there is a Panasonic AG-7700 VHS machine on the other side of the table. Not very ergonomical, but the VHS machine can controlled by the VW320 via RS422. At least in theory, due missing software for that). |
 curr5.jpeg The display wall seen by daylight. O2 on the far right (notice the "Häkelschwein" on top of it). Lots of documentation, programming books and other litrature (mostly philosophy books). Also a can of silicone oil... Picture on the right (continued): The row below: LTO library (10 100Gb tapes inside), O200 Gigachannel (the skin is broken, I am currently working on a replacement solution as it's only a matter if time that they also fall of the two O200s) Below the Gigachannel: A single SGI InfiniteStorage 9400 brick containing a well mixed bunch of HDD's. Bottom row: A 15/30Gb DLT drive and the two NUMAlinked Altix 350s. They are sitting on a cable plenum (the white thing) where all the residual cable lengths go. The panel on the left side of the rack is the main power distribution. It is build in a way that the whole arrangement can be fed either by 240V, 16A single phase or 400V, 16A three phase power sources. |
 curr6.jpeg The rack (actually one of these shelves intended for workshops or cellars). On top of it (mostly out of the picture) are two vaxen (VaxStation 4000/60 and VaxStation 3100) with associated Toshiba CDROM and TK50 drive. Also sitting there is a single 300Gb FC hdd in a modified SCSI enclosure. Next row: OpenFiler appliance (build atop a small PIII-600 PC), Brocade Silkworm 2800 FC switch with two Vixel Rapport 1000 FC hubs on top. In the middle section you find the aforementioned IBM Intellistation Z Pro, two NUMAlinked Origin 200, an IBM Intellistation R Pro and finally two FC-SCSI bridges. |
 curr7.jpeg Networking frame, build by myself from thick wooden beams (quite stable and oversized for the job). On top of it are the AVM FritzBox 7390 router and an ATI 8-port, 100Mbit switch. Below a 24-port, 10/100Mbit ATI switching hub and an ATI 10Mbit 8-port 10BaseT/ 10Base2 hub. The two 8-port devices are powered on continuously, while the 24port device is switched on/off with the switchable rack circuit. The 10Mbit hub is sitting atop of an Cobalt RaQ4 (which is the main login-, mail-, DNS- and webserver when it resides in a dedicated machine room, too loud to operate it continuously in a room where you also have to sleep... The job of it is currently transferred to a fan- and diskless thin client. The two devices below are a (seldom used) DECswitch 900EF (router, hub, and FDDI bridge in one person, despite the name no (ethernet) switch in it) and a Cisco 2514 router, with used to connect to a foreign network in a previous location. |