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Computing summary

University of Sydney > Maths & Stats > Computing topics > Computing summary

History

mid-1970s to 1982

Computing Centre Cyber, with thermal printing terminals on modems in Carslaw

1982 to 1989

VMS VAX 11/780 summer shared with Chemistry and housed in Computing Centre, with printing and video terminals in Carslaw on modems then early Sydnet

1988 to February 1998

Apollo workstations running Domain Unix

February 1995 to January 2002

Compaq/Digital AlphaServers with Tektronix X-terminals and Windows PCs, plus admin Novell server

February 2002 to February 2005

transition from Alphas to Debian Linux, with Windows 2000

February 2005 onwards

Debian Linux and Windows 2000/XP

Current set-up

Undergraduate student computing facilities

• 5 laboratories with about 90 Windows XP PCs
• 2 laboratories with about 30 older PCs acting as net-booted X-terminals
• Server: dual Intel Xeon server rome
• Operating system: Debian Linux plus Samba
• Software: MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, Magma, Fortran, S-PLUS, etc
• Printing: laser printer with page quotas
• Web access: within usyd.edu.au only
• Mail for undergraduates available (subject to disk quota)
• Hours of operation: 8:30 to 16:45 during semester

Staff and postgraduate facilities

• All School staff and many postgraduate students have a "Y-terminal" (net-booted diskless Linux PC acting as X-terminal) or PC (Windows 2000 or XP, and/or Debian Linux perhaps with VMware) in their office
• Interactive server: dual Intel Xeon Debian server pisa
• Further dual Intel Debian compute servers padua, ancona, savona, verona and genoa, and RAID fileserver siena with DLT tape
• Printing: five HP LaserJet 4xx0N on network (four duplex, one colour)
• Network connectivity, access to web, email, School news system

Administration

• Small LAN for administrative staff
• Debian Linux Samba server
• three HP 4xx0N printers