Mission ---

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

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

Hardware ---

Sirius (HP-UX)

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

/usr/bin/sh - Posix shell.
/usr/bin/csh - C shell.
/usr/bin/ksh - K shell.
/usr/bin/rksh - Restricted K shell.
/usr/bin/keysh - Context sensitive softkey shell.
/usr/local/bin/bash - GNU Bourne again shell.
/usr/local/bin/tcsh - Enhanced C shell.

Sirius Software

bc - Arithmetic calculator.
emacs - Emacs text editor.
f90 - HP Fortran compiler.
gaussian 03(c.02) - Gaussian molecular model.
gcc - GNU C++ compiler.
gnuplot 4.0 - Gnuplot.
grep - GREP.
perl 5.8.0 - PERL Language interpreter.
vi - Vi text editor.

CCTR1, CCTR2, CCTR3 (HP-UX)

The CCTR machiness are HP Itanium 2 rx2600 Servers running HP-UX 11.23.

They each consist of 2-1.3 GHz 64bit CPUs with 4+ Gb memory and are accessible using TELNET, FTP, SSH or SCP.

CCTR1,2,3 Shells

/usr/bin/sh - Posix shell.
/usr/bin/csh - C shell.
/usr/bin/ksh - K shell.
/usr/bin/rksh - Restricted K shell.
/usr/bin/keysh - Context sensitive softkey shell.
/usr/local/bin/bash - GNU Bourne again shell.
/usr/local/bin/tcsh - Enhanced C shell.

CCTR1,2,3 Software

bc - Arithmetic calculator.
emacs - Emacs text editor.
f90 - HP Fortran compiler.
gaussian 03(c.02) - Gaussian molecular model.
gcc - GNU C++ compiler.
gnuplot 4.0 - Gnuplot.
grep - GREP.
perl 5.8.0 - PERL Language interpreter.
vi - Vi text editor.

Bob, CCTR1, CCTR2, CCTR3, HP-UX Fileserver and Sirius(590K)

Hilbert and Dilbert (Tru64)

Hilbert is a Compaq Alpha ES40 Server running HP Tru64 5.1B-3.

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.

Dilbert is a Digital AlphaServer 4100 running HP Tru64 5.1B-3.

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

Hilbert and Dilbert Shells

/bin/bash - GNU Bourne again shell.
/usr/bin/sh - Bourne shell.
/usr/bin/csh - C shell.
/usr/bin/ksh - K shell.
/usr/bin/tcsh - Enhanced C shell.
/usr/bin/posix/sh - Posix shell.

Hilbert and Dilbert Software

ampac - Semichem AMPAC.
bc 1.05 - Arithmetic calculator.
cc 6.4-014 - Compaq C compiler.
cobol 2.5 - Digital COBOL compiler.
cvs 1.11.1p1 - Version control system.
cxx 6.1-027 - Digital C++ compiler.
emacs 20.7 - Emacs text editor.
fortran 5.5-2602 - Compaq Fortran compiler.
gaussian 98,03 - Gaussian molecular model.
gawk 3.0.3 - GNU Awk.
ghostview 1.5 - Ghostview.
gnuplot 3.7 - Gnuplot.
grep 2.4.2 - GREP.
lynx 2.8.3 - Lynx text browser.
maple 8 _ Waterloo Maple.
perl 5.6.0 - PERL Language interpreter.
sas 9 - SAS.
vi - Vi text editor.

Hilbert and Dilbert(590K)

HP-UX and Tru64 Usage

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

bash shell 2.05a - GNU Bourne-Again SHell.
bc 1.06 - An arbitrary precision calculator language.
cvs 1.11.5 - Concurrent Versio System.
elvis 2.1_4 - A clone of the ex/vi text editor.
emacs 21.2 - Editor.
expect 5.34 - Expect-programmed dialogue with interactive programs.
gawk 3.1.1 - pattern scanning and processing language (GNU awk).
gcc 2.95.3 - GNU project C and C++ Compiler.
g77 - GNU project Fortran Compiler (v0.5.24).
gdbm 1.8.0 - The GNU database manager.
ghostscript 7.05 - Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer).
gnuplot 3.7.2 - Command-line driven interactive function plotting utility.
jed B0.99_15 - Extremely powerful but small emacs-like editor.
make 3.79.1 - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs.
perl 5.6.1 - Practical Extraction and Report Language.
python 2.2.1 - Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
spider 8.06 - System for Processing Image Data from Electron microscopy and Related fields.
tcl 8.3.4 - Tool Command Language.
tclx 8.3 - Tool Command Language extensions.
tcsh 6.11 - C shell with file name completion and command line editing.
tk 8.3.4 - Cross-platform UI toolkit implemented with TCL.

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.

HP-UX Fileserver

An HP va7110 cabinet housing 15 shared high-speed disks in 2 logical volumes using HP AutoRAID providing 765 Gigabytes of disk storage.

Tru64 Fileserver

A Digital ESA10000 cabinet housing 24 shared high-speed disks in 4 RAID arrays using HSZ-70 FWD SCSI controllers providing 575 Gigabytes of disk storage.

Tru64 Fileserver(648K)

Facility ---

Computer room with elevated floor.

Airflow 10 ton air conditioner.

Liebert UPS and power conditioning system.