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
corn-syrup
PowerEdge 2950
Specs
- 2 × Intel Xeon E5405 @ 2.00 GHz
- 32 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
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)
sid
Sid is a container with Debian testing installed.
Services
- Newer software
freebsd
FreeBSD is a virtual machine with FreeBSD installed.
Services
- Newer software
rainbowdragoneyes
Rainbowdragoneyes is our Lemote Fuloong MIPS machine. This machine is aliased to rde.csclub.uwaterloo.ca.
Specs
- 800MHz MIPS Loongson 2f CPU
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
gwem
Specs
- AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz 8-Core CPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 1x 160GB SATA drive
- AMD Radeon 6870 HD 1GB GPU
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
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
It is named after Gordon Strombola.
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
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: 465 GB software RAID1 (contains root partition):
- 750 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA hard drive
- 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
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
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
binaerpilot
This is a Gumstix Overo Tide CPU on a Tobi expansion board.
Specs
- TI OMAP 3530 750Mhz (ARM Cortex-A8)
- 512MB RAM
anamanaguchi
This is a Gumstix Overo Tide CPU on a Chestnut43 expansion board.
Specs
- TI OMAP 3530 750Mhz (ARM Cortex-A8)
- 512MB RAM
paza
An iMac G3 that is used as a dumb terminal.
Specs
- 233Mhz PowerPC 740/750
- 96 MB RAM
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.