Deathstar

Description:

Deathstar is an 8-way IBM Netfinity. It was purchased at the same time as the blue nodes. It has 4G RAM and a gigabit uplink to the rest of the world. It is not managed through PBS - any user can log on at any time and run processes.

 

 

  Node
Processors: 8 x PIII-550Mhz
Memory 4GB
Disk:

75GB

Uplink:

100mbit

OS: RedHat 7.3

 

Reservations:

There is no scheduler or reservation service on tau. Deathstar is only visible within UMIACS/CFAR/CS. You will need to ssh through redleader if you need offsite access.

 

Disk Use:

Deathstar has two scratch disks available for use. A 10GB /scratch1 and 65GB /scratch2. Data is not backed up on these drives, so copy any important results to your groups project directory or your own home directory.

 

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