New node hardware can't easily, if at all, be added to existing cluster, which is running an old OS.
Options within this option:
1A: Install new OS on Lancaster's cluster. Add Crane's new nodes to that cluster.
- This is very similar to the work we are (8/2013) doing with Collum's cluster. Takes a lot of time and coordinating, but is mostly a known quantity.
- If choose to do this, how and when to fit this in, since can't do immediately.
Other, "crazier" ideas under this general option:
1B: Buy compatible (old? eBay?) nodes.
- May be more attractive if can obtain more nodes, even though they individually would be less powerful and already worn through their warranty and obsolescence cycle.
1C: Invest time and staff resources to continue trying to build a capsule which would work with current, old OS
- Lulu already spent a lot of time trying to do this, so