Difference: ListOfMachines (13 vs. 14)

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Nevis Linux Cluster Node Names

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tanya ATLAS client 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Pentium D 1 GB 60 GB Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicolaievna (1897-1918)
xenia ATLAS tier3 server Quad 2.26 GHz 4-core Xeon 24 GB 15 TB Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna
karthur ATLAS/D0 workgroup server Dual 3.2 GHz Xeon 4 GB 2.5 TB Arthur Pendragon, Once and Future King
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elecdesign Electronics shop chip-design workstation 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 1 GB 160 GB Sometimes we have to use a practical name
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elecsim Electronics shop chip-design workstation 2.4 Intel Xeon 24 GB 800 GB Sometimes we have to use a practical name
elecdesign Electronics shop chip-design workstation 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 1 GB 160 GB
 

DOE

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hogwarts General shared server Xen virtual machine on HA cluster Hogwarts, a school where wizards are trained
hermione Shared client 2 GHz Athlon Duo 2 GB 60 GB Hermione Granger, one of Harry's friends
ron Shared client 2 GHz Athlon Duo 2 GB 60 GB Ron Weasley, another of Harry's friends
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harry Shared client 2 GHz Athlon Duo 2 GB 60 GB Named after characters in the Super Mario Bros. series of games.
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harry Shared client 2 GHz Athlon Duo 2 GB 60 GB After Harry Potter, the hero of his eponymous series.
 
claremont Shared client 2 GHz Athlon Duo 2 GB 60 GB Named after streets in the area of Columbia University
broadway Shared client 1.86 GHz Dual-core 2 GB 72 GB
columbus Shared client 1.86 GHz Dual-core 4 GB 72 GB
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isolde D0 client 3 GHz Pentium 4 1 GB 60 GB Isolde, a woman of tragedy

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Administrative servers

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Administrative machines

 Named for historical figures who made important contributions to Western thought
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hypatia HA server Two AMD Opteron 6128 (16 cores total) 16 GB 2.5 TB Hypatia of Alexandria (d. 415), a teacher and philosopher who was killed for advocating experimental science and other heresies.
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shelley backup server Dual Core 1.5 GHz Intel Xeon 3050 2 GB 4 TB Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), writer and philosopher, best known as the author of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.
tango samba server Xen virtual machine on HA cluster The tango is a dance from Argentina that's actually quite different from the Brazilian samba.
sullivan mailing-list server Xen virtual machine on HA cluster Take your pick:
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cordwainer scanner workstation 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 512 MB 35 GB Cordwainer Smith was a science-fiction writer. Among his best-known stories is Scanners Live in Vain.
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bassi videoconference system in room 115 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo 2 GB 60 GB Laura Bassi, the first women to hold a university position in Europe and a physics teacher.
cordwainer scanner workstation 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 512 MB 35 GB Cordwainer Smith was a science-fiction writer. Among his best-known stories is Scanners Live in Vain.
 
annex Annex general-purpose server Dual 2.4 GHz Xeon 1 GB 250 GB sometimes we have to use a practical name

Why the funny names?

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