history of cs department computers and student sysadmins

The following table gives some information about the computers we have used since our first CS lab back in 1986. Below that are the names of our student system administrators who have helped keep the CS systems up and running.

Year Server Approx. Server Cost Details CS Lab Machines
1986 Sun 3/160 $39K 4MB mem, 380MB disk, 1600 BPI 1/2" tape, SunOS 3.4? six diskless Sun 3/50M-4 monochrome workstations (later upgraded to 12MB of memory), four ASCII terminals
1992 Sun SPARC 2 $19K 64MB mem, 3x1.3GB disks, SunCD, SCSI, SunOS 4.1.2 six Sun ELC monochrome workstations and two Sun IPC color workstations
1996 Sun Ultra 170E $23K 256MB mem, 2x2GB disks, CD, Solaris 2.5.1 seven SunELCs, 3 SunIPCs, one Sun SPARC 4, six color X-terminals
1998 Sun E450 $26K 2x250MHz CPUs, 512MB mem, 5x4.2GB disks, CD, 14GB 8mm tape drive, Solaris 2.6 16 workstations (Ultra 10s, U170s, Sparc4, etc), 8 HDS X-terminals
2003 Penguincomputing Relion 225 $12K 2x1.1GHz PIII CPUs, 1GB mem, 54GB disk + 8x73GB external RAID, dual 10/100 eth, VXA-1 tape drive, Debian Linux 24 x86 Linux workstations, plus Robot Lab machines
2006 pogolinux.com PerformanceWare 1464 $5K 2x1.8GHz Opteron 244 CPUs, 4GB mem, 144GB disk (plus still using 8-disk external RAID), dual 100/1000 eth, VXA-2 tape drive, Debian Linux around 50 Linux workstations in our main, overflow, and robot labs. most are x86, some are dual-processor opterons.
swarthmore cs student sysadmins...

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