melanopus

1. The Red and Black Anemonefish [Amphiprion melanopus] usually has one white bar on the head behind the eye, although some fish lack a bar. Its breast, belly and dorsal fin are red to orange. Much of the side of the body is black.
(source: australian museum online)

How and when machine obtained:

• Melanopus was donated to the UCC in 2005 by Fugro Seismic Imaging.

History prior to arrival at UCC:

• Melanopus was the GFS locking server for FSI's filesystem cluster.

UCC history of machine:

• Melanopus is sitting in the clubroom as a user machine, where seriola used to live.

Current machine tasks:

• General purpose Linux desktop machine;
• cross-compiler

Current software configuration:

• Debian Sarge, GNOME

Current hardware configuration:

• 2x 733MHz Alpha EV67 processors with 8MB cache
• 1.5GB RAM
• 18GB SCSI disc

Future plans for machine:

• None

Special notes:

• Onboard USB is meant to be supported by the OHCI driver, but doesn't seem to work under the latest Linux 2.4.
• Something in Debian's Linux 2.6 kernels prevents sd_mod from loading properly. No SCSI driver == bad.

Thanks:

• Fugro Seismic Imaging for their donation of the machine, and
• PXY and TRS for making it work.

Related sites:

• Compaq Corporation
• Digital Equipment Corporation
• Fugro Seismic Imaging
• Samsung Alpha-11 Project