UNIX/Linux Servers

Interactive Servers

Use these machines to run interactive programs, such as reading mail or editing files. Do not run long-term jobs on these machines.

  • empress.soe.ucsc.edu
    RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 x 3GHz CPU's.
  • riverdance.soe.ucsc.edu
    4x2.6GHz AMD Centos 5.5
    This is SOE's NX server
  • sundance.soe.ucsc.edu
    Sundance is a virtualized Solaris 10 SPARC system with two virtual processors.
  • moondance.soe.ucsc.edu
    Moondance is a virtualized Solaris 10 SPARC system with two virtual processors.

Compute Servers

Use these machines for long running compute jobs.  Be aware these are shared machines, using all of the RAM or processors for one person is discouraged.

  • apache.soe.ucsc.edu
    Apache is a virtualized Solaris 10 SPARC system with 8 virtual processors on a Sun T2000 (32 thread 8 core 1GHz).
  • firedance.soe.ucsc.edu
    RHEL 4 4x2.6 GHz AMD
  • craigsdance.soe.ucsc.edu
    Centos 5 4x2.6 GHz AMD
  • swingdance.soe.ucsc.edu
    Centos 5.9 4x2.6 GHz AMD
  • stardance.soe.ucsc.edu
    Centos 5.9  4x2.6GHz AMD
  • waterdance.soe.ucsc.edu
    Centos 5.9 4x2.6GHz AMD
  • slamdance.soe.ucsc.edu
    Centos 6.4 4x2.6GHz AMD
  • solopteron.soe.ucsc.edu
    Solaris 10 x86 2x2.4 GHz AMD

Compute Clusters

Use these machines to run a large number of batch jobs

  • campusrocks.soe.ucsc.edu
    This is a campus resource run by SOE, from a Craigslist donation. There are 65 nodes 2 or 4,8 cores each, with 16GB RAM.  2 new nodes have been added with 48 cores each and 192GB RAM each.
  • planetlab.soe.ucsc.edu
    Contact soe:contact:elm or go to the PlanetLab web site.

Alumni Server

Alumni users will only have access to connect to the Alumni server:

  • alumni.soe.ucsc.edu
    CentOS 5.7