This collection of documents is aimed at any systems administrator who might have to take
over from me. There's nothing for users in here that can't be found
from the friendlier pages elsewhere, unless you happen
to want to know bizarre things like the exact RAID setup of the login server or
how the install server works. Starred items are restricted access. The
following list of internal services and
their machines may be useful too.
| Machine |
Description |
| Apollo |
The main Systemimager imageserver. Now
decommissioned. |
| Athens |
Compute cluster for parallel work |
| Sword |
Compute cluster for serial work |
| Chimaera * |
Login server/bastion host/ssh gateway. Also used to be the NFS
server, Wiki server, and Mathematica licence server. |
| Por/Flexlm |
The licence server. Virtualised machine. Por is its original name which is being phased out. |
| Heartofgold |
Dual Opteron workstation |
| Rama |
Compute cluster for mainly serial work |
| Destiny |
Home-built Beowulf cluster. My first attempt at building a cluster. I wouldn't do it this way again, but it's still been a useful machine. |
| Ice |
Experimental water cooled cluster. Now decomissioned. |
| Nemesis * |
SunFire 6800: a large SMP Sun box. Now decommissioned. |
| Old Mek-Quake * |
Sun E10K: a very large and aging SMP Sun box, now retired |
| New Mek-Quake * |
Large dual-core Opteron cluster |
| Defiant * |
Sun Enterprise 4000: an aging SMP Sun box, now retired
|
| Silver |
Wales group backup server |
| dw34.dow |
Wales group offsite backup server |
| Odyssey |
Backup NFS server now
retired |
| Pun |
Backup server |
| Pea |
Was an archive server, now dead |
| Polaris * |
Archive server, now retired |
| Pou |
Warm spare for Paun |
| Tardis |
The sector's main parallel cluster |
| Tor |
Was an old Alpha workstation belonging to Ali Alavi |
| Paun* |
The NFS server, Mathematica licence server, ex-LDAP server, and autoyast server |
| Clust |
Wales group compute cluster |
| Rho |
The SP3, now retired |
| Nimbus |
Yet another compute cluster; Opteron |
| Poseidon |
A small Opteron compute cluster, now moved to another University |
| Zero |
A Intel-based GPU cluster |
| Volkhan |
Wales group cluster |
| Zippo |
Wales group cluster |
| Nongo |
Best group cluster |
| Castor * |
Archive server and patch server. Backup NFS server, mathlm server |
