Machine List

Servers

artificial-flavours

Artificial-flavours used to be an office terminal, and before that it used to be in a 1U server case that had a hole drilled in it for ventilation. It is now our disk server, housing /users.

Specs

• Intel Celeron 3.2GHz
• 2GB RAM
• Biostar P4M80-M4 Motherbard

Services

• /users via NFS

caffeine

Caffeine is the Computer Science Club's primary server. It servers mail, websites, authentication and a large amount of other services. It is located in MC 3015.

Specs

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
• 4GB RAM
• ASUS A8V-E SE Motherboard

Services

• Directory services with OpenLDAP
• Authentication with Kerberos
• Club and member web sites with Apache
• CSClub packages repository
• Puppetmaster

citric-acid

Citric-acid is a large blue DEC AlphaServer. It is located in MC 3015.

Specs

• AlphaServer 4100 (4 600MHz EV56 CPUs)
• 6GB RAM

Services

• Talks mirror
• Ubuntu ISO mirror

natural-flavours

Natural-flavours' is the machine that runs mirror.csclub. It is also the CSC's backup server. It is normally located in MC 3015, but is temporarily in the CSC's office.

Specs

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
• 2GB RAM
• ASUS P5L-MX Motherboard

Services

• mirror.csclub

Natural-flavours network card appears to have a problem dealing with TSO. As such, you should add 'up /usr/sbin/ethtool -K eth0 tso off' below 'gateway 129.97.134.1'.

perpugilliam

Perpugilliam is the CSC's old server. It now lives in a 2U case. It located in MC 3015.

Specs

• 2 Intel Pentium III (Katmai) 550 MHz
• 640MB RAM
• ASUS P2B-D Motherboard

Services

• BNBT BitTorrent tracker
• Backup authentication and directory services

taurine

Taurine is the CSC's newest system as of Spring 2007. It runs multiple virtualized systems. It is located in DC 3558.

Specs

• 2 AMD Opteron 2218 CPUs
• 8GB RAM

Services

• Talks mirror
• Virtual machines

potassium-citrate

Potassium-citrate is a dual-processor Alpha machine. It is on extended loan from one of our members. It will likely be located in MC 3015, but currently resides in the CSC office.

Specs

• Alphaserver CS20 (2 833MHz EV68al CPUs)
• 512MB RAM

ascorbic-acid

Ascorbic-acid is Sun Netra T1 that will be running our Stratum 1 NTP server.

Specs

• Sun Netra T1
• 256MB RAM

Services

• Stratum 1 NTP server

Office Terminals

acesulfame-potassium

Acesulfame-potassium is the newest office terminal

Specs

• Intel Pentium 4 2.67GHz
• 1GB RAM
• ABIT VT7
• ATI Radeon 7000

Services

• Office webcam

caramel-colour

Carmel-colour is an older office terminal.

Specs

• Intel Pentium III 1.0GHz
• 512MB RAM
• ASUS CUSL2-C Motherboard
• ATI Rage Pro 128

Services

• Office webcam

glucose-fructose

Glucose-fructose is the fastest office terminal. It serves as backup to citric-acid for ISO distribution.

Specs

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
• 512MB RAM (512MB died)
• ASUS M2V-MX Motherboard
• ATI Radeon X300SE

phosphoric-acid

Phosphoric-acid is an older office terminal.

Specs

• Intel Pentium III 1.0GHz
• 512MB RAM
• ASUS CUSL2-C Motherboard
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

romana

Romana is a BeBox that has been in the CSC's possession since long before BeOS became defunct.

Specs

• 2 PowerPC based procccessors
• Stylish Blinken processor-load lights

sodium-citrate

Sodium-citrate is an SGI O2 machine.

In order to net boot you need to set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc to 1. When the O2 boots, hit F5 at the boot menu and type bootp():.

Virtual Machines

koha

Koha is a virtual machine running on sugar that runs our library system.

builder

Builder is a virtual machine that has various cross-compilers installed. See Cross compiler for more information.