Workstations in the CIP pool

The CIP pool consists of workstations in the new container building and workstations in the foyer. All workstations run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. All hosts run the 64 bit version of Ubuntu.

All hosts are in the .cip.ph.tum.de domain. I.e. the fully qualified domain name for c2quad1 is c2quad1.cip.ph.tum.de. Only cipgate.cip.ph.tum.de is accessible from outside the MWN via SSH on port 222.

The workstation configuration is listed below. The physical locations of the workstations are shown in the workstation map.

Host      CPU                                 Memory   Devices
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cont1sandy1-8 Intel i7 -2600K 3.40GHz (SandyBridge)  16 GB  DVD writer
cont2sandy1-8 Intel i7 -2600K 3.40GHz (SandyBridge)  16 GB  DVD writer
cont3sandy1-2 Intel i7 -2600K 3.40GHz (SandyBridge)  16 GB  DVD writer
cont3sandy3-4 Intel i7 -2600K 3.40GHz (SandyBridge)  16 GB  DVD writer with nvidia cuda graphics card
cont1think1-8   Intel Core 2 Duo  CPU 64 2.93GHz    2   GB   DVD writer
cont2think1-8   Intel Core 2 Duo  CPU 64 2.93GHz    2   GB   DVD writer

foyer1    Intel Core 2 Duo  CPU 64 2.93GHz    4   GB   DVD writer
foyer2    Intel Core 2 Duo  CPU 64 2.93GHz    4   GB   DVD writer
foyer3    Intel Core 2 Duo  CPU 64 2.93GHz    4   GB   DVD writer
foyer4    Intel Core 2 Duo  CPU 64 2.93GHz    4   GB   DVD writer

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cipserv   Redundantly hosted virtual machine    1   GB   
cipgate   Redundantly hosted virtual machine    0.5 GB   Directly accessible from Internet

Two computers have CUDA-enabled GPU cards and the corresponding SDKs: cuda1 (aka cont3sandy3) and cuda2 (aka cont3sandy4).

All user profiles are shared between all hosts. Every host has the same set of applications.

/scratch

The amount of space you can use in your home directory is limited to 2 GB per user (although this can be increased if you can convince us that you do not want to use the space to backup your mp3 collection). If you need more space for temporary storage (e.g. simulation data) please use the local /scratch directory. You may use as much space as you like. However please keep in mind that files in /scratch are stored on the local workstation, are never backuped and can be lost at any time.

You can access the /scratch directory of another workstation via /net/<HOSTNAME>/scratch, e.g. /net/iseven1/scratch points to the scratch folder of the workstation iseven1. The subdirectories of /net are invisible, i.e. /net will show as empty when you run ls /net; however the folders are there and usable. The /net directory is also available on cipgate and can be used for direct transfer of data from an external host via scp to the /scratch directory of a workstation.