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A RISC'y cluster - Part I

A house without a cluster is just a house. In order to run mail, website, git, batch processing and whatever other services you can imagine needing servers in the basement for, I set out to find an interesting and exciting while still economical solution. Bit of background Through my career I have worked with many hardware architectures. I have written assembly for x86, Sparc, UltraSparc, PA-RISC, Power2, Power PC, Alpha and other processors over the years and I have written high performance software for all of them in higher level languages too (Fortran, C, C++).
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Reboot the site

It’s been a full 8 years and change since I wrote my last post. I have been busy work wise and in private life, and I desperately wanted to change the site architecturally. I wanted a new static site generator since the old one (BlazeBlogger) was lacking in a great number of ways. Basically I have been putting off redoing the site because I felt that writing a static site generator would be a fun project.
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