Intel Computer Systems Cluster (the "fish machines")
You will be doing your 15-213 lab assignments on a cluster of Nocona
Xeon servers, donated by Intel, called the "fish machines". 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 our machines after fish of
North America. The fish machines run Linux, are rack-mounted in the
Wean Hall 3rd floor machine room, and are administered by the CS
facilities group. They reboot every day at 7am.
Here is the
current fish machine status.
- Fish machines available to students:
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flounder.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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grouper.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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kingfish.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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mackerel.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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marlin.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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pompano.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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sailfish.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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seabass.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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seatrout.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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swordfish.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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tarpon.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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tuna.ics.cs.cmu.edu
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Here is more complete information on the memory system.
Fish machines available to teaching staff only:
bluefish.ics.cs
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bonito.ics.cs
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cobia.ics.cs (Autolab server)
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Quick Start Login
Suppose your user name is
bovik. First, login to an Andrew Linux or Unix machine:
- ssh bovik@linux.andrew.cmu.edu
Then, from your Andrew home directory, type:
- unix> /afs/cs/academic/class/15213-s08/bin/checkin   (very first time only)
- unix> ssh -x -l bovik@ANDREW.CMU.EDU fish.ics.cs.cmu.edu
Note: If prompted for a password, enter your Andrew password.
Note :The uppercase 'ANDREW.CMU.EDU' is significant.
Note: The string "-l" is dash el, not dash one.
Note: Your top level Andrew home directory needs to be at least world listable:
"system:anyuser l".
Note: By using host name "fish", you will be directed at random to one of the course machings.
Getting Help
Information about the CS computing environment is at
www.cs.cmu.edu/~help.
If you are having trouble logging in, please send mail to
your instructor (gkesden@cs.cmu.edu).
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How do I get an account?
A: Accounts will be created for you automatically.
Q: Are the accounts ready yet?
A: No (as of Fri, Jan 04, 2008).
Here are the students who have accounts.
If you're not on the list, please request an account from
Prof. Gregory Kesden (gkesden@cs.cmu.edu).
Q: What do I need to do before logging in for the very
first time?
A: From your Andrew home directory on an Andrew
Unix machine (e.g., linux.andrew.cmu.edu or
unix.andrew.cmu.edu),
run the following one-time checkin script:
unix> /afs/cs/academic/class/15213-s08/bin/checkin
Your top level Andrew home directory needs to be at least world listable:
"system:anyuser l".
Q: What does the checkin script do?
A: The checkin script activates your account so that
you can login to the fish machines using your Andrew password. It
creates a hidden directory called ~/.15213 with login
credentials for the fish machines. If you don't have one already, it
also creates a protected directory ~/213hw where you can
safely do your assignments without other students being able to see
them. You only need to run the checkin script once, before
your very first login to the fish machines. However, you can safely
run the checkin script as often as you like.
Q: How do I login to one of these machines once I have run the
checkin script?
A:
If your Andrew login is bovik and you want to login to
a machine,
then type the following while logged in to an Andrew Unix machine:
unix> ssh -x -l bovik@ANDREW.CMU.EDU fish.ics.cs.cmu.edu
[type your Andrew password to the prompt, if prompted]
Note: The uppercase 'ANDREW.CMU.EDU' is significant.
Note: "-l" is "dash el".
Note: The "-x" option disables X11 forwarding, which sometimes
interacts poorly with the new 64-bit FC3 boxes. It's not always
necessary, but we suggest using it just to be sure.
Q: I did everything you said but I still can't login. Now what?
A: Here are the most common reasons students can't login:
If you still can't login, please send mail to your instructor.
Technical specs
Each node on the cluster runs
a 64-bit version of Fedora Core 3 (Linux kernel 2.6.11) and
consists of the following hardware:
- 3.2 GHz Dell PowerEdge 1850
- Dual 3.2 Ghz 64-bit (EM64T) Nocona Xeon processors (the processors don't share caches)
- Cache block size: 64 B
- L1 cache: 16 KB, 8-way associative, write-through
- L2 cache: 1 MB, 8-way associative, write-back
- 800 MHz frontside bus
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Intel E7520 (Lindenhurst) chipset
- 2 GB, 400MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory
- 146 GB Ultra320 SCSI hard disk
- Embedded ATI Radeon 7000-M graphics card, w/16 MB SDRAM
- 1U rack height
- 48 bits virtual address
- 36 bits physical address
- 4 KB page size
- 4-level page tables with 512 entries per table
- Data TLB with 64 entries, fully associative
- Instruction TLB with 128 entries, fully associative
- L1 instruction cache: 16KB, 8-way set associative, 64 byte blocks
1 cycle access time for cache hit
- L1 data cache: 16KB, 8-way set associative, 64 byte blocks
1 cycle access time for cache hit
- 4 cycles latency for L1 cache hit memory access
- L2 unified cache: 1MB, 8-way set associative, 64 byte blocks
~10 cycles access time for L2 cache hit
- Main memory: 2GB
~50-100 cycles access time
- 146 GB hard disk
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