mayo@ucbvax.ARPA (12/11/84)
From: mayo (Bob Mayo) I'm not sure what the resources are here, but a quick 'wc' on the host table indicates 144 ethernet addresses. Subtract maybe 40 addresses for machines with more than one (gateways) and we get about 105 machines. I would venture to guess that half are VAXen and half are SUNs. Virtually all are research machines. Maybe 10 VAX 11/750s are for teaching. Most of the other VAXen are also 750s, with about 8 or so 780s and a few 730s, etc.. Research cycles are OK, but things do get quite loaded down in the afternoons. You can usually find all the research cycles you want between 2am and 9am. Teaching machines are heavily loaded, often load averages of ~20 with 40 users. They are loaded around the clock. Ucbvax, the 750 gateway to UUCP and other networks, has had a load average as high as 76.0, but not in recent times. Long live readnews. Accounts on the machines are tightly controlled -- you must show need and some sort of proposal. Faculty sponsorship is usually required. This list is for the entire Berkeley campus. Most all of them are in EECS, or Computing Facilities, with maybe 10 or so in Math/Stat, etc.. Any Bezerkeleyites have more solid info? --Bob
dcmartin@ucbvax.ARPA (David C. Martin) (12/16/84)
In all respect to Bob Mayo and Eric Fair I thought it might be appropriate for a current undergraduate to speak on UCB's computer facilities. Checking our /usr/hosts directory, I find 109 machines, approximately of which 40 are SUN's. We have a Computer Center w/ 1 VAX 780, 16 750's and 4 or 5 (depending on the phase of the moon) 11/70's. These are all $$ machines and the CS/EECS department pays the CC funny money for their use. Currently most of the undergraduate classes are taught on ~ 6 machines "rented" each semester. There are also the research machines (owned by the CS/EECS departments) on which graduate do most of their work. Undergraduates may get accounts on these machines (as I evident) by getting a faculty sponsor for some kind of research project. There is a 780 reserved for undergraduate upperdivision classes w/ 16megs and accounts on this machine can be acquired by taking a independent study class (again a project must be stated). Now, however, we have received 5 750's from DEC (thank you, God!), and via their generousity will hopefully have that many more cycles. We also have an Onyx system and a Perkin-Elmer for which there is *no* restriction on use. These machines invariably get used for game playing, but have been excellent starting points for more serious work done under faculty sponsorship. There are also a 730 and an HP9000. All in all, from what I have read, the UCB undergraduates are very well off compared to others (with the exception of MIT <envy!> :-). However, we are always trying to get more industrial donations! ----- Stupidity got us into this mess; why can't it get us out? David C. Martin arpa: dcmartin@berkeley usps: 2400 Durant Avenue uucp: ..!ucbvax!dcmartin 501 Ida Sproul Hall at&t: 415/643-2144 Berkeley, CA 94720