CS 213 - Intel Computer Systems Cluster (the "fish" machines)
Intel has donated 25 Pentium III Xeon servers to the CS 213 course. The
systems, which run the Red Hat 5.2 distribution of Linux, are
rack-mounted in the Wean 3rd floor machine room, and are administered
by the CS facilities group (help@cs).
Getting help
Information about the CS computing environment is at
www.cs.cmu.edu/~help.
For routine questions or requests send mail to help@cs.cmu.edu.
For more urgent matters, contact the CS help desk at x8-4231 or
visit them in person M-F, 9am-5pm, in WeH 3613. Outside of
office hours, the phone rolls over to the CS operations group, which
is staffed 24x7x365.
Frequently asked questions
Q1:How do I get an account?
A1:Pick up an account application from Prof.
O'Hallaron (WeH 8125) and fill it out and sign it.
Take it to the CS help desk (WeH 3613), identify yourself
as a CS 213 student, and ask for MaryBeth.
Q2:How do I change my password?
A2:Telnet or ssh to one of the Intel cluster machines
(see below). Then type:
% kinit YOUR-CS-LOGIN-ID
% telnet -xa jeeves
This will connect you to the menu-driven Jeeves service.
Select option 2: "Perform a Kerberos related operations".
Then select option 4: "Change a Kerberos principal password".
Q3:How do I increase my disk space allocation?
A3:Use the Jeeves service.
Machines available to CS 213 students
Intel engineers traditionally use the names
of North American rivers as internal names for their processor
projects. So it seems fitting that we, as denizens of the Intel
cluster, name the machines after freshwater fish of North America.
The machines can be accessed with either ssh or telnet.
Machines available to CS 213 staff for course development
About the Intel Cluster
Each machine runs Red Hat Linux 5.2 and consists of the following
hardware:
- 550 MHz Pentium III processor
- 512 KB L2 cache
- 256MB SDRAM memory using 128MB DIMMS
- Ultra2/Wide SCSI bus and controller, EIDE disk controller
- 9.1GB Ultrawide SCSI hard drive
- Fast Ethernet card
- 16-bit Soundblaster Pro compatible sound card
- 1 parallel, 2 USB, 2 serial, and 1 ultra/wide SCSI ports
- 3 external 5.25" peripheral bays, 4 internal 3.5" hard drive bays
- 1 AGP, 3 PCI, 1 shared, 1 RAID slots
- 40x SCSI CD-ROM
- Harmon Kardan HK195 speakers
- Diamond Viper 2 v.770d 32MB graphics card
Dave OHallaron
Last modified: Tue Oct 26 14:50:39 EDT 1999