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(2) Research Computing

Research Computing Group, Computing Services

Central file servers (AFS) - used by all of the systems below, and available for use by any computer on campus.
Sunray, Polaris - General purpose SMP machines for mail, IRC, software development etc. All Northstar accounts are enabled on these systems.
Research systems (Ozark, Andes). Dedicated multi-CPU systems for research users. A subset of the Northstar accounts are enabled on these systems. They use the same home directories (in AFS) as the general purpose systems.
Discovery Cluster A cluster of Linux nodes for parallel applications (beowulf cluster).
Northstar-www - Web server for AFS accounts
Gateway - Off-campus access machine.

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