Research and Teaching Unit Spending Plan 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16
Spending plan for the Research and Teaching unit for financial year 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16.
This spending plan assumes that a virtualisation service (KVM) will continue to be provided (sufficiently resourced and funded) outside of the Unit. The unit is already extensively virtualised, physical servers that exist are there purely because of particular performance/robustness requirements.
Physical Servers:
Host (Virtual/Host) |
Usage |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
burly |
Research PostgreSQL; Webmark DR |
REPLACE: age >5yrs; out of warranty; disk I/O |
RAID Disk, 8GB |
High |
£2000 |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
cake |
Theon (Database DR Recovery Server) |
may need hand me down to minimise performance gap with shortbread |
replace with hand me down for performance |
|
|
£0 |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
fondant |
Theon - UI |
BEING REPLACED BY sprinkles; INTERNAL RAT RE-USE |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
decommission? |
flapjack |
Teaching PostgreSQL |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
replace for performance |
|
|
£2500 |
heffalump |
64Bit Large Memory Compute |
NO ACTION PLANNED; age >4yrs etc |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
decommission? |
shortbread |
Theon (Database/In/Out Server) |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
replace for performance |
|
|
£2500 |
sprinkles |
Theon UI/Portal |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
victor |
Coltex |
TO BE REPLACED BY unknown (KVM/unknown); age >5yrs; out of warranty; disk I/O |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
wasserboxer |
RAT VirtualBox (or KVM) Hosting |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
replace as second line and/or fallback and/or dev/test KVM |
TBD |
High |
£2500 |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
Virtual Servers:
Host (Virtual/Host) |
Usage |
Action |
barking (KVM/waterloo) |
RAT Trac |
KVM |
bathurst (KVM/wasserboxer) |
SIMICS - FlexLM Licensing |
KVM |
bloor (KVM/jubilee) |
Webots Licensing |
KVM |
dufferin (KVM/wasserboxer) |
Matlab Research - FlexLM Licensing |
KVM; Matlab Licensing possibly replaced by central IS service |
eglington (KVM/hammersmith) |
TFTP Brain Brick; Qualnet FlexLM Licensing |
KVM |
greenford (KVM/wasserboxer) |
Webmark/Reform |
KVM |
islington (KVM/wasserboxer) |
Matlab Teaching, Maple, Mathematica - FlexLM Licensing |
KVM; Matlab Licensing possibly replaced by central IS service |
keele (KVM/circle) |
Theon Test/Development |
KVM |
muffin (KVM/jubilee) |
Theon Test/Development |
KVM |
redbridge (KVM/wasserboxer) |
Theon - Basecamp (SVN+Trac) |
KVM |
sloanesquare (KVM/jubilee) |
ISSRT |
KVM |
southgate (KVM/piccadilly) |
Lab Exams Backups/Submission |
KVM |
southwark (KVM/jubilee) |
Lab Exams Backups/Submission |
KVM |
spadina (KVM/waterloo) |
ProjectsDB |
KVM |
stonebridge (KVM/wasserboxer) |
Theon - Portal |
KVM, BEING REPLACED BY sprinkles |
Compute Cluster
In 2013 the compute nodes will be 6 and 7 years old, at some point they will start to fail and we will have to replace them or bin the cluster. The cluster no longer runs gridengine jobs so is now solely used for Hadoop/GPFS for a number of researchers and the Extreme computing course.
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TimColles - 07 Oct 2013
Topic revision: r1 - 07 Oct 2013 - 09:24:33 -
TimColles