gridengine.info

Some behind-the-scenes info to report:

• We have a new server home and fresh OS: Centos 5 Linux running virtually under XenEnterprise
• The XenEnterprise infrastructure is running on top of some really sweet storage and server hardware from Silicon Mechanics
• xml-qstat.org (SVN repository, local demo and the website) are now hosted on the same system as gridengine.info
• Now using Ruby 1.8.6 and the latest stable RAILS environment to host the blog
• The OS refresh and RAILS environment update finally allowed us to upgrade to the latest Typo 5 based blogging engine
• wiki.gridengine.info also coexists on this system along with everything else

The only glitch so far is Typo (or RAILS, not sure …) and it’s inability to handle article tags that contain the "." character. This means all of the SGE version based tags like "6.1" currently fail to work. Even the "tag cloud" sidebar can’t handle "." characters so that has temporarily been moved off the blog. This will either be fixed or we’ll hack the database to replace the "." with something else.

Expect access to this site to possibly be flaky as new DNS information propagates outward.

Comments welcome – currently the blog is proxied behind Apache and is just using the basic built-in webserver that comes with the RAILS environment instead of the Lighttpd-with-FastCGI that I had hand built on the old server. I’d be interested in hearing comments on how fast or slow this new server is operating. If needed we’ll put the blog under Lighttpd/FastCGI again.