Craig looks at stuff
A 3G Lab/Trigenix Trip to the Sanger Centre, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire - 23rd April 2004
Nosher, Craig and Nick from Trigenix head over to the Wellcome Institute's famous Sanger research centre at Hinxton, just off the bottom of the A11 in Cambridgeshire. Once there, we meet up with former 3G Lab sysadmin Dave Holland, who's now helping to look after Sanger's world-class massive data centre - the UK home to the Human Genome Sequencing project, with half a Petabyte of storage. There are also some photos contributed from Nick's camera.
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Craig, Dave and Nick in a machine room somewhere
Nick looks at a Switch
Craig, Nick and Dave chat between racks
The boys outside the Sanger Centre
Nick, Dave and Nosher
Nick looks at his camera
We wander off across the car park
The Sanger Centre
These are a step up from the usual 'kettle leads'
Dave's colleague's up a stepladder
Dave's colleagure shows us a new Blade Server
A rack with hundreds of servers in it
Craig next to a 125kV power supply
Craig points to some massive storage device
Pallets of 1U servers, replaced by blade servers
Nosher takes a photo
Wandering the corridors of the data centre
We head off to the pub
Nick takes photos in the car park
Walking pass the conference centre
Hinxton Hall
On the path to the pub, with Hinxton Hall behind
The Hinxton Red Lion
Craig orders a Bitburger
We have a beer (or orange juice) in the garden
Food occurs
Nosher's new red hair
The purple hair again
Craig and Nosher at the pub
A dog comes up for a scrounge
Stomping back to Sanger
Standing by the back gate
A leafy view of the Sanger Centre
We inspect the site's backup generator
A lightning tree has been carved into a DNA spiral
Nosher hangs out by the front door
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Craig looks at stuff
Craig looks at stuff
Craig, Dave and Nick in a machine room somewhere
Nick looks at a Switch
Craig, Nick and Dave chat between racks
The boys outside the Sanger Centre
Nick, Dave and Nosher
Nick looks at his camera
We wander off across the car park
The Sanger Centre
These are a step up from the usual 'kettle leads'
Dave's colleague's up a stepladder
Dave's colleagure shows us a new Blade Server
A rack with hundreds of servers in it
Craig next to a 125kV power supply
Craig points to some massive storage device
Pallets of 1U servers, replaced by blade servers
Nosher takes a photo
Wandering the corridors of the data centre
We head off to the pub
Nick takes photos in the car park
Walking pass the conference centre
Hinxton Hall
On the path to the pub, with Hinxton Hall behind
The Hinxton Red Lion
Craig orders a Bitburger
We have a beer (or orange juice) in the garden
Food occurs
Nosher's new red hair
The purple hair again
Craig and Nosher at the pub
A dog comes up for a scrounge
Stomping back to Sanger
Standing by the back gate
A leafy view of the Sanger Centre
We inspect the site's backup generator
A lightning tree has been carved into a DNA spiral
Nosher hangs out by the front door