Sol

This page contains information on systems that are in happy retirement from the Computer Systems Lab.

Sol used to reside in the old Sun rack in the machine room. It previously served as one of the AP CS Sun Ray servers. Until its retirement, it has served various roles at various points in time including NSS LDAP server, Secure Global Desktop server, CUPS server, mirror, and Sun NFS admin volume server.

Technical Specifications

Specification	Description
Server Type	Sun Ultra Enterprise 450
CPU	UltraSPARC-II @ 400MHz
RAM	4096 MiB
Hard Disks	6x Seagate Cheetah (10k RPM) 36GB UltraSCSI-3 1x Seagate Cheetah (10k RPM) 18GB UltraSCSI-3 2x Seagate Cheetah (10k RPM) 73GB Ultra320
OS	Sun Solaris 10
Purchase Date	2005

History

Sol was one of the donated Sun servers acquired by the CSL in the spring of 2005. It was replaced in 2008 with servers received from Sun through the Sun Academic Excellence Grant.