Machine List

Servers

ascorbic-acid

Ascorbic-acid is Sun Netra T1. Needs 'rootdelay=15' kernel argument to boot.

Specs

• Sun Netra T1
• 256MB RAM
• 2 × 20 GB Seagate hard drive, configured as a 34 GB LVM volume group

Services

• Runs ssh on ports 21,22,53,80,81,443,8000,8080 for user's convenience.

caffeine

Caffeine is the Computer Science Club's primary server. It servers mail, websites, and a large amount of other services. It is a Linux container at present.

Specs

• currently hosted on glomag

Services

• Club and member web sites with Apache
• MySQL databases
• Mail services
• ceo daemon
• DNS master

corn-syrup

Specs

• Intel Xeon E5405 @ 2.00 GHz
• 12 GB RAM
• eth0 ("Gb0") mac addr 00:24:e8:52:41:27
• eth1 ("Gb1") mac addr 00:24:e8:52:41:29
• IPMI mac addr 00:24:e8:52:41:2b
• 3 × Western-Digital 160GB SATA hard drive (445 GB software RAID0 array)

Notes

• Use eth0/Gb0 for the mathstudentorgsnet connection

Services

• Hosts 1 TB /scratch and exports via NFS (sec=krb5)

denardo

Specs

• Sun Fire V210
• TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeño)
• 2 GB RAM
• 160 GB RAID array

Services

• Wikileaks mirror hosted on port 80

potassium-citrate

Potassium-citrate is a dual-processor Alpha machine. It is on extended loan from one of our members. Needs 'rootdelay=15' kernel argument to boot. Might have bad memory, which needs to be investigated.

Specs

• Alphaserver CS20 (2 833MHz EV68al CPUs)
• 512MB RAM
• 36 GB Seagate SCSI hard drive

taurine

Specs

• 2 AMD Opteron 2218 CPUs
• 8GB RAM
• 136 GB LVM volume group

Services

• Virtual machines
• BitlBee IRC instant messaging gateway (localhost only)
• DNS slave

Office Terminals

bit-shifter

bit-shifter is an office terminal.

Specs

• Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300
• 4GB RAM
• Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L Motherboard
• nVidea GeForce GT 240
• 1x 750GB Segate SATA drive
• 1x 80GB IDE Drive (part of a striped LVM volume for /video)
• Jacob Parker's Firewire Card

Services

• Office webcam

maltodextrin

Maltodextrin is an office terminal; it used to be Bartle's Box of doom.

Specs

• Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53 GHz
• 2GB RAM
• Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L Motherboard
• Seagate Barracuda 400 GB SATA hard drive

Services

• Office webcam

natural-flavours

Natural-flavours is an office terminal; it used to be our mirror.

Specs

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
• 2x1GB RAM
• 320 GB Seagate Barracuda hard drive
• ASUS P5L-MX Motherboard
• DVD Burner

nullsleep

nullsleep is an ASRock ION 330 machine given to us by CSCF and funded by MEF

Specs

• Intel® Dual Core Atom™ 330
• 2GB RAM
• NVIDIA® ION™ graphics
• 320 GB hard drive
• DVD Burner

strombola

Strombola is our newest, shiniest office terminal and has a decent videocard suitable for work with graphics and rendering.

Specs

• Intel Core2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33GHz
• 4 GB RAM
• nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS
• Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L Motherboard
• Western-Digital Caviar Blue 160 GB SATA hard drive

Speakers

Strombola has integrated 5.1 channel sound and the office speakers are currently connected to it.

Services

Strombola runs MPD for playing music. Control of MPD is available only to users in the "audio" group. Music is located in /music on the office terminals

acesulfame-potassium (decommissioned)

Specs

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

Syscom Only

The following systems may only be accessible to members of the Systems Committee for a variety of reasons; the most common of which being that some of these machines host Kerberos authentication services for the CSC.

artificial-flavours

Artificial-flavours is our backup server. It used to be an office terminal.

Specs

• Intel Celeron 3.2GHz
• 2GB RAM
• Biostar P4M80-M4 Motherboard
• Western-Digital 80 GB ATA hard drive

Services

• Cacti
• Backup authentication and directory services
• BNBT BitTorrent tracker

ginseng

Ginseng is our file server.

Specs

• Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180
• 8GB RAM
• Intel S3000AHV Motherboard
• 4 × 640 GB Western-Digital Caviar Blue in RAID 10 behind a 3ware 9650SE RAID card.

Services

• /users via NFS
• Directory services with OpenLDAP
• Authentication with Kerberos
• ceo daemon

glomag

Glomag is a newish server (as of Fall 2009) which hosts caffeine. Only syscom are allowed to SSH in here directly, though SSH to caffeine is permitted to all members.

Specs

• Intel Xeon X3450 @ 2.67 GHz
• 6 GB RAM
• vg0: 931 GB software RAID0 (contains root partition):
  • 2 × 500 GB Western-Digital Caviar Blue SATA hard drive
• vg1: 596 GB software RAID1 (contains caffeine):
  • 2 × 640 GB Western-Digital Caviar Blue SATA hard drive
• vg2: 750 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA hard drive

Services

• Linux containers; see caffeine

sodium-benzoate

Sodium-benzoate is our mirror server, funded by MEF.

Specs

• Intel Xeon Quad Core E5405 @ 2.00 GHz
• 16GB RAM
• vg0: 228 GB block device behind DELL PERC 6/i (contains root partition)
• mirror: ~14 TB block device behind DELL PERC 6/i (contains mirror)
  • 8 × 2 TB hard drive (RAID-5)

Services

• Mirror
• Talks mirror
• CSClub packages repository

Other

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():.

Specs

• SGI O2 MIPS processor
• 423 MB (?) RAM
• 2 × 2 GB hard drive

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

goto80

This is a small ARM machine we picked up in order to have similar hardware to the Real Time Operating Systems (CS 452) course. It has a JTAG interface.

Specs

• 500 MHz Feroceon (ARM926ej-s compatible) processor
• ARMv5TEJ architecture

Use -march=armv5te -mtune=arm926ej-s options to GCC.

For information on the TS-7800's hardware see here: http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=ts-7800

digital cutter

See here.

Lisp machine

A recently acquired Symbolics XL1200 Lisp machine. dseagrav [at] lunar-tokyo.net wants us to drop him an email if we ever get it running, or anybody ever dumps the ROM images from it.

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/12/03/symbolics-xl1200-lisp-machine-free-to-a-good-home/ for some history on this hardware.

Specs

Currently inoperable due to (at least) a missing console cable.