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The Dell rack mount server boxes were stacked high under the big tent outside the Math building. Senior research scientist Michael McLennan (holding Styrofoam and box) is shown helping to unpack. The task generated 6,000 pounds of cardboard and 600 pounds of Styrofoam packing material. Both were recycled.

The Dell rack mount server boxes were stacked high under the big tent outside the Math building. Senior research scientist Michael McLennan (holding Styrofoam and box) is shown helping to unpack. The task generated 6,000 pounds of cardboard and 600 pounds of Styrofoam packing material. Both were recycled.  Some of the volunteers lift another unit for sliding into a slot near the top of the rack.  Systems administrator Joe White and helper connect yellow cables at the back of the rack.  Systems administrator Joe White of Purdue IT unpacks one of 812 Dell servers under the big tent outside the Mathematics Building the morning of May 5. In the background are Michael McLennan, senior research scientist, and Michele Rund, Web application programmer on the Purdue IT staff.  An IT technician conducts a final check on one of the 812 installed PowerEdge 1950 two-way servers, with each processor based on a quad-core design for a total of eight cores per server.  Former university computing center director John Steele (left), who retired in 2003, talks with John Campbell (center with beard), associate VP for research computing, as Lon Ahlen, facilities manager for Purdue Information Technology, looks on.  Purdue Provost Randy Woodson, President France Cordova and Gerry McCartney, CIO, sign a panel that will be hung on the end of the Steele rack. Each person who helped build Steele signed the panel. 

The Dell rack mount server boxes were stacked high under the big tent outside the Math building. Senior research scientist Michael McLennan (holding Styrofoam and box) is shown helping to unpack. The task generated 6,000 pounds of cardboard and 600 pounds of Styrofoam packing material. Both were recycled.

Photograph by Dan Jones