Hardware for machines in the gloworm cluster

Gloworm serves as the main server, providing file, mail, and compute services. As gloworm is the stable host name in the cluster, it should be used as the machine for your email address.

More details on the characteristics of the machines and peripherals are given below.

Gloworm (cluster server)

• Sun Blade 2500 running Solaris 9
• 2 1.28 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi CPU modules (each is rated at 696 SPECint2000, 1021 SPECfp2000)
• 10 GB main memory (12 GB swap)
• 140+ GB of user file space
• Located in CISX 334

cruncher (big and fast HP)

• HP 9000/J6000
• 2 552 MHz PA8600 CPU modules (each is rated at 38.7 SPECint95, 59.7 SPECfp95)
• 8 GB main memory (10 GB swap). 64-bit executables (compiled with +DA2.0W) can access all 8 GB. 32-bit executables are limited to 1.9 GB if linked with "-N" (1 GB otherwise).
• Located in CIS second floor, machine room

Desktop SPARCs

blue-chalk (Ultra 2)

• Sun UltraSPARC 2 Creator3D Model 2300 running Solaris 7
• 2 300 MHz UltraSPARC CPU modules (each is rated at 12.3 SPECint95, 20.2 SPECfp95)
• 1.0 GB main memory (1.2 GB swap)
• Located in CISX basement

outpost (Ultra 10)

• Sun UltraSPARC 10 Creator3D running Solaris 7
• 1 300 MHz UltraSPARC IIi CPU (rated at 12.1 SPECint95, 12.9 SPECfp95)
• 640 MB main memory (1.2 GB swap)
• Located in CISX 302

barrone (Ultra 10)

• Sun UltraSPARC 10 Creator3D running Solaris 7
• 1 333 MHz UltraSPARC IIi CPU (rated at 14.1 SPECint95, 18.1 SPECfp95)
• 640 MB main memory (1.2 GB swap)
• Located in CIS basement

SPARC Blade 100's

• Sun SPARC Blade 100 running Solaris 8
• single 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe CPU (rated at 174 SPECint2000, 182 SPECfp2000)
• more than 768 MB main memory (some with 2GB)

• orthanc (2GB)
• barad-dur (2GB)
• dol-guldur (1280MB)
• osgiliath
• gondor
• argonath
• arnor
• minas-anor
• minas-ithil
• khazad-dum
• aglarond
• baranduin
• amon-sul
• erebor
• fangorn

Printers

• pilsner

  • HP Laserjet 4050N (w/PostScript) located in CISX 332
  • general use
  • default queue
  • tray selection will work when using lp (e.g. "lp -d pilsner -o manual file.ps"; see "man -M /opt/hpnp/man net_ljx000" for other options)

• lager

  • HP Laserjet 4M (w/PostScript) located in CISX B113 (northwest set of cubicles)
  • general use

Please only print small jobs on these printers. They belong to other groups. The permission to continue spooling to these printers depends on how you use them.

• peaches

  • HP Laserjet 5M (w/PostScript) located in CISX 300
  • general use

• tom, tom-hp, and tom-duplex

  • Color HP Laserjet (w/PostScript) located in the hallway on the third floor of CISX
  • use only for color printouts

• george

  • HP Laserjet 5Si (w/PostScript) located CISX third floor hallway
  • general use

• softly

  • HP Laserjet 5M (w/PostScript) located ???
  • general use

• bartlett

  • HP Laserjet 5Si (w/PostScript) located on the first floor of CIS
  • general use
  • supports duplex (two-sided) printing

• delicious

  • unknown type located somewhere on the second floor of CIS
  • general use

• meeko

  • unknown type located somewhere on the first floor of CIS
  • general use

• kiwi

  • HP Laserjet 4 (w/PostScript) located somewhere on the first floor of CIS
  • general use

Other Peripherals

• Tape drives

  • An Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive is available for general use on gloworm in the CISX 334 /dev/rmt/0 is the rewind device, and /dev/rmt/0n is the norewind device. Use data grade 8mm tapes. Video tapes may not work reliably.

    This is a high density 8mm tape drive; tapes written on this device will not be readable on older 8200 (2.3GB) drives.

    Using /dev/rmt/0l (that's a lower case "L" for low density, not the digit one) should work for writing a low density tape that is readable on an older 8200 drive. See man st for more information.

  • Other tape drives are available on the dsotape machine on the second floor of Sweet Hall. This machine requires a Leland account. For more information, see the DSOTAPE information sheet.

  CD-ROM drives

  • Most of the Suns have CD-ROM drives. The volume managment software should automagically mount a data CD under /cdrom when inserted. If the CD does not mount after 10 or so seconds, run volcheck. To unmount and eject the CD, run eject.

    Solaris has an volume manager that will automatically mount a CD. After you insert the CD, run volcheck, then wait about 30 seconds, then cd to /cdrom. Do not manually eject the CD. cd to /, and run eject to umount and eject the CD.

  CD Writer

  • The XP machine in CISX 335 has a CD-ROM Writer. It supports CD-R media and CD-RW media. CD-R is the recommended media.
  • Although there is software on the XP machine to burn CD's from local file and directory sets, it may be better to create an ISO9660 image file first under Unix (yes, the guy who wrote this is a Unix bigot), especially if you want to preserve filenames, symlinks, etc. for use as a live CD filesystem under Unix. The Unix-based mkisofs program will create the image. Sample usage is

        mkisofs -a -d -J -l -L -R -o /scratch/file.iso /path/to/my/stuff
    

    • -a includes all files
    • -d omits appending a trailing period to file names that don't have a period
    • -J creates Joliet directory records (for Windows)
    • -l allows full 32 character filenames (instead of the braindead 8.3). These limitations do not apply to the Joliet and Rock Ridge records.
    • -L allows filenames to begin with a period
    • -R created Rock Ridge records (supported by most Unix systems for long filenames)

    See the manpage for mkisofs for a more detailed explanation of the options.

    mkisofs may create images that are too large to fit on a CD. Check the size of the .iso file before burning to make sure that it will fit on the media. Most CD-R media holds 650MB.

    Transfer the .iso file to the XP machine (binary mode, of course). Click on the .iso file under XP Explorer and create the CD.

  • This CD writer is not to be used for violating copyrights. Doing so is a violation of Stanford's Computer Usage Policy.

  Floppy drives

  • You can use the floppy drives on the XP workstations.
  • Most of the Suns have floppy drives. After you insert a DOS/Windows formatted floppy, use volcheck to get the volume management software to mount it under /floppy. Be sure to run eject to unmount the floppy prior to manually ejecting it.