[3dem] Falcon 3 question

[Mario Borgnia]

That is true for our Krios as well (to 3 A as least), but remember that the
enclosure of the Arctica is not insulating, either acoustically or
thermally.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:45 PM Neil Ranson <N.A.Ranson at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
> The preinstallation manual may well say that (it certainly did when we
> installed) , but for the parsimonious amongst you, our falcon-3 offload
> server sits directly on top of its Krios' power cabinet very happily, where
> it is protected by the microscope's ups. We bought a 3rd party offload
> server for our k2-equipped Krios, and it also lives on top of its power
> cabinet.... Equally fine. No rack or thermal enclosure required.
> KR,
> Neil
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> From: Wim Hagen
> Sent: Thursday 4 October, 19:35
> Subject: Re: [3dem] Falcon 3 question
> To: 3dem at ncmir.ucsd.edu
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>
> Bad news -> fast responses: I have just been informed that the
> preinstallation manual currently states the storage server has to go into a
> separate room so no free acoustic enclosures for everyone. Best, Wim > On
> 4. Oct 2018, at 20:04, Wim Hagen wrote: > > Hi, > > We keep two Falcon
> storage servers in the acoustic enclosure that FEI recommends, in the
> Arctica room, very silent. Temp is 35 degrees, not a problem, might even
> build a box on to dry the loading tools with the hot exhaust air from the
> enclosure. > > We could not go into technical room because cooling capacity
> was not ok. > We could not go into IT patch room for our part of the
> building because IT was afraid of cooling capacity issues. > We could not
> go to data center as that was over 300 m requiring single mode l we only
> have multi mode fibre optics. > > Since none of this storage server stuff
> was mentioned in the pre-installation manuals I held FEI responsible, so
> they threw the acoustic enclosure in, not us. > > The server is on network
> through 10gb and IT made a user group for approved users so they can mount
> it on their own machines. Mounting directly on cluster to copy data
> unfortunately has not been possible due to local policies. The data size is
> massive and does not compress well. > > We looked into external GPU’s to
> align on the server (we don’t use EPU but SerialEM), but now plan a
> separate box running Warp. > > Best, > > Wim > > > >> On 4. Oct 2018, at
> 19:46, Morgan, David Gene wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> For those of you who have
> Falcon 3 cameras, what sort of server rack have you found to be best/most
> useful/etc.? >> >> -- >> politics is more difficult than physics. >> A.
> Einstein >> >> David Gene Morgan >> Electron Microscopy Center >> 047D
> Simon Hall >> IU Bloomington >> 812 856 1457 (office) >> 812 856 3221
> (3200) >> http://iubemcenter.indiana.edu >>
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