I started setting up the hardware at around 1600h yesterday. I finished setting up the underlying software today at around 1900h today. Not too shabby, eh? According to wwtop: Cluster totals: 20 nodes, 40 cpus, 96200 MHz, 39.18 GB mem Here's a snapshot of the front of the status page: What an ordeal. Now we have to start compiling PETSC on it.