Hardware
Servers
The following general-purpose servers are available to researchers and graduate students in the department:
The two general-purpose compute servers are bluespruce and bayes: bayes is primarily for statistical computing and bluespruce for everything else.
Researchers and graduate students also have access to the SHARCNET super-computing clusters at McMaster and partner instutions.
Ms.mcmaster.ca
Hardware
Quad-core AMD
Operating System
Mandriva linux
Owner
Department
Purpose
Support server
Availability
General.
Contact
sysadmin
if you require access.
Access
All users with ms.mcmaster.ca accounts can connect via ssh and sftp.
Description
ms.mcmaster.ca in the central server for the department: it handles email, web sites, authentication, holds most home directories and provides access to files and software via sftp, AFP (shares unix folders to OS X) and samba (shares unix folders to Windows). There is no computing software on ms.mcmaster.ca: one should log into it only to read mail, access files, etc.
Anatolius
Hardware
Single Core Intel
Operating System
Mandriva linux
Owner
Department
Purpose
General-purpose computation.
Availability
General, but AIMS-group researchers have priority.
Contact
sysadmin
if you require access.
Access
All users with ms.mcmaster.ca accounts can connect via ssh.
Description
Anatloius is a single-cpu server with 4Gb of RAM. It is not suitable for running many concurrent jobs, but it is our most persistent server - in the event of a power interruption, anatolius can be suspended and restarted without jobs and memory being lost (anatolius is actuall a virtual server).
Software
- Maple
- MATLAB
- SIMATH
- IDL
- TeX/LaTeX (teTeX)
- fortran 77
- fortran 90
- c++ (and gcc, Intel C)
- java (j2se 1.3)
- sm
Bayes
Hardware
Quad Xeon
Operating System
Mandriva linux
Owner
Department
Purpose
Statistical computation.
Availability
General.
Contact
sysadmin
if you require access.
Access
All users with ms.mcmaster.ca accounts can connect via ssh and sftp.
Description
Bayes is the primary statistical computing server for the department. Priority is given to the statisticians.
Software
Redpine
Hardware
Sun Ultra 30
Operating System
Solaris 7
Owner
Department.
Purpose
Statistical computation.
Availability
General.
Contact
sysadmin
if you require access.
Access
All users with ms.mcmaster.ca accounts can connect via ssh, telnet (on-campus only), ftp (on-campus only).
Description
Redpine is unavailble at present.
Redpine is the department's secondary statistical-computing server (primary server is bayes). S-Plus and SAS have been moved to bayes.
Software
- R
- fortran 77
- fortran 90