[Bigiron](nomen-est-omen.html "Bigiron") was phased out at May 1st after a long and productive life. Its successor is on the way, and as I've predicted [previously](game-over.html "previously"), it's no longer powered by AMD:  I'd prefer to run Debian Wheezy on this newcomer just as on Bigiron and Tungsten, our other workstation, but [some software](https://www.lumerical.com/tcad-products/fdtd/specs/#Supported-systems "some software") we intend to use [may not install](http://docs.lumerical.com/en/fdtd/install_linux_faq_ubuntu.html "may not install") on a Debian system. Anyway, I'll post benchmarks as soon as Bigiron 2 aka Osmium is up and running.