Prodigy
Prodigy ~ 136.206.15.2
Details
| Type: | Sun Enterprise 450 |
| OS: | Solaris 8 |
| CPU: | 2 x UltraSPARC-II 400MHz |
| RAM: | 2GB |
| Storage: | Onboard Symbios 53c875 dual channel UltraWide SCSI controller |
| 2 x PCI Symbios 53c875 dual channel UltraWide SCSI controllers | |
| PCI FC-AL (Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop) controller [currently unused] | |
| Disks: | 20 x 9GB UltraWide SCSI disks |
| Drives: | Internal SCSI CDROM [currently disconnected/broken ???] |
| Internal SCSI 8mm Exabyte tape drive [currently unused] | |
| External SCSI HP "BENCHMARK" DLT1 tape drive | |
| Network: | hme0 (onboard) [currently unused] |
| qfe[0123] (Quad Fast Ethernet, a 4 port NIC) [only qfe0 currently used] | |
| Extras: | Sun 256 colour graphics card [currently unused] |
| Three hot swappable redundant power supplies | |
| The Name: | Prodigy (prod' i ji) n. Something wonderful or extraordinary; a wonderful example (of); a person or thing with extraordinary gifts or qualities; something out of the ordinary course of nature, a monstrosity.The name Prodigy was picked by Phil (phil@rb). It was called 'marco' while in Sun and arrived to us with the rather imaginative name of 'PleaseNameMe'. This was changed later to 'Prodigy' but not before it enjoyed a brief period with the name 'beefcake' (no, really). |
Description
Prodigy was graciously loaned to the society by Sun Microsystems Ireland. As you can gather from the specifications above, this is one very powerful machine. It also has a price tag as hefty as the machine itself (when we recieved the machine, its cost was estimated at around £60,000). We recieved the machine in April 2001 and on the 13/14th October 2001 (the weekend after Clubs & Socs day) it went live, replacing Enigma as the primary login machine.
Services
- Secondary mail
- Secondary LDAP