Research and Teaching Unit Spending Plan 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17
Spending plan for the Research and Teaching unit for financial year 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17.
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 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
Action |
Spec |
Priority |
£Estimate |
burly |
Webmark Backup and Unit Spare |
Out of Warranty (5 years old) - NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
cake |
Theon (Database DR Recovery Server) |
replace if necessary with hand me down for performance (to match shortbread) |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
fondant |
Theon - Development/Backup UI/Portal |
Out of Warranty (4 years old) - NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
flapjack |
Teaching PostgreSQL |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
heffalump |
64GB Memory Compute |
Out of Warranty (5 years old) - NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
puffin |
Shared Demos/Web Services |
Out of Warranty (8 years old) - decommission and/or replace as KVM guest |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
shortbread |
Theon (Database/In/Out Server) |
option to replace for performance improvement |
- |
Medium |
£2500 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
sponge |
Research PostgreSQL; Webmark DR |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
sprinkles |
Theon UI/Portal |
option to replace for major performance improvement |
- |
High |
£2500 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2015/16 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
victor |
Coltex |
Out of Warranty (5 years old) - replace as KVM guest |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
wasserboxer |
RAT VirtualBox (or KVM) Hosting |
NO ACTION PLANNED |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
AS FOR 2014/15 |
N/A |
N/A |
£0 |
Out of Warranty - REPLACE |
- |
High |
£3500 |
All other servers are either virtual (running under KVM on either wasserboxer or one of the MPU maintained KVM hosts) or owned by research group/grant.
Compute Cluster
In 2014 the compute nodes will be 7 and 8 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. It is likely that the cluster could continue to make do with "hand me down" equipment.
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TimColles - 08 Oct 2014
Topic revision: r2 - 08 Oct 2014 - 12:58:11 -
TimColles