4. Our Hardware
The department operates four designated servers and a number of
workstations, PC's and X-Terminals. The core computing needs of the
department are met by the servers.
4.1 Servers
- RGMiller.
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This is our main server and is named in honor of
Rupert G. Miller, a late faculty member of this department. It is a
Silicon Graphics (SGI) Challenge with four R10000 (64-bit)
processors. When you log into any of our X terminals you are using
this machine.
RGMiller has over 80 Gigabytes of disk space and 2 Gigabytes of
RAM. It runs an a flavor of the Unix operating system called IRIX.
There are over 200 software packages on this server and several
hundred more are available via the Andrew File System (AFS)
network. Documentation for locally installed software, as opposed to
SGI supplied software, is usually in the directory
/usr/local/doc.
- Girshick.
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This is a machine that was obtained by Prof. Richard
Olshen for the department. Again, the name honors a late faculty
member of our department Abraham Girshick. Currently, it provides some
booting services to our X terminals and serves as our Web server.
Girshick has 8 Gigabytes of disk space and 256 Megabytes of
RAM. However, Girshick is not as well supported as RGMiller due to
practical constraints on our system administrator, but it does have
access to the AFS file tree from where several hundred applications
can be fetched transparently.
- Playfair.
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This used to be a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
workstation, model 5000/240. But it has now been replaced by a Linux
machine. Playfair is our mail and anonymous ftp server.
All these machines can be accessed from anywhere in the world with a
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) such as
rgmiller.stanford.edu, girshick.stanford.edu, etc.
Please note that there is very little likelihood that you ever need to
log into Girshick or Playfair.
4.2 PC Hardware
Feb 01 1999 Update
Our PC lab was activated on 1st February 99. We have 21 WinNT 4.0
workstations hooked up to a WinNT Server, forming the STATISTICS domain.
The workstations are called SEQPC-01 through SEQPC-21, and the server is
called STAT-NT-SERVER.
These PC's are not meant for running jobs; they are strictly for
convenience. Students typically use the PC's for transferring files
to and from our servers or for word processing (Microsoft Word)
or spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel) applications, or for logging on to
Leland/rgmiller.
Members of the department or visitors to the department may get an account
on the STATISTICS domain by contacting Hsiu-Khuern (hktang@leland), Tao
(jiang@stat) or Naras (            ).
Once you have an account, you can access the department
printers. In the near future, you should be able to access your files on
rgmiller too. More details are in
the PC-lab
section as well as the
Frequently Asked Questions section.
4.3 Mac Hardware
There is no publicly available Macintosh hardware in the department.
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