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Late last week, I visited fellow DD Tim Cutts at the Sanger Institute just south of Cambridge. I dropped off a couple more machines that the BOFHs there have kindly offered to host for Debian, and Tim offered me a quick look around their facility. Sanger plays host to a massive set of computers used for genetic sequencing and related tasks. They have a very impressive setup with thousands of machines in multiple machine rooms, connected via huge amounts of (very neatly laid!) power and networking. Oh, and multiple petabytes of disk storage, with terabytes more data generated every day.

The coolest thing? Tim told me that the majority of their machines are running Debian, mostly stock installations with no special tweaks needed. Yay!

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