Mission ---

The purpose of Academic Research Computing is to provide compute power for the research community at UMKC.

Available systems include a VMS cluster, Tru64 server, Itanium 2 server and a Beowulf cluster.

Hardware ---

CCTR

CCTR is a Digital Alphaserver 4100 running HP VMS 7.2.

It consists of 4 533 MHz 64bit CPUs with 2Gb memory and is accessible using TELNET, FTP, SSH or SCP.

It supports VMSMail using MX 5.1 and HTTP using OSU Webserver 3.9a.

CCTR Software

CCTR and Hilbert(590K)

Hilbert

Hilbert is a Compaq Alpha ES40 Server running HP Tru64 5.1B.

It consists of 4 667 MHz 64bit CPUs with 8Gb memory and is accessible using TELNET, FTP, SSH or SCP.

It supports PINE 4.21 using Qmail.

Hilbert Shells

Hilbert Software

Bob and Sirius(590K)

Sirius

Sirius is an HP Itanium 2 rx7620 Server running HP-UX 11.23.

It consists of 8 1.3 GHz 64bit CPUs with 64Gb memory and is accessible using TELNET, FTP, SSH or SCP.

Sirius Shells

Sirius Software

CCTR, Hilbert and Sirius Usage

CCTR, Hilbert and Sirius Usage

Over the past 12 months, Hilbert has averaged 87% utilization and CCTR has averaged 38%. Sirius is a new system but is currently running at 100%.

Wulfy

Wulfy(322K)

Wulfy is a MOSIX cluster based on the Slackware 8.1 distribution of GNU Linux.

It consists of 24 Intel Pentium machines and is accessible using SSH or SCP only.

Wulfy Cluster Software

Disk Storage ---

Bioinformatics Fileserver

Bob(570K)

A Dell 2650 serving 42 shared high-speed disks in Raid 0 and Raid 5 configuration providing 2500 Gigabytes of disk storage.

CCTR Fileservers

CCTR Fileservers(648K)

A SW500 cabinet housing 36 shared medium-speed disks in 8 split-partitioned RAID arrays using HSZ-50 FWD SCSI controllers providing 120 Gigabytes of disk storage, and 3 DSSI disks providing 6 Gigabytes of disk storage.

An ESA10000 cabinet housing 24 shared high-speed disks in 4 RAID arrays using HSZ-70 FWD SCSI controllers providing 264 Gigabytes of disk storage.

Facility ---

Computer room with elevated floor.

Airflow 10 ton air conditioner.

Liebert UPS and power conditioning system.