Figure 1: The IBM AIX Clsuter
The new system is replacing, over a period of a couple of quarters, the old IBM AIX system. This old system has been in use since January of 1993 when the RISC 6000 systems replaced earlier AIX PS/2 systems that had been in use since December 1989.
The IBM AIX System is composed of seven machines. Of these seven there are six which the users log into (IBM RISC/6000 Model 5x0 systems) and one which acts as a mail, gopher, web, and fileserver (the IBM RISC/6000 Model 99J known as "oboe"). The 5x0 macines each had 320 MB of memory and 6 GB of disk space as well as both Token-Ring and Ethernet network adapters. The 99J (oboe) has 512 MB of memory and 40 GB of disk space as well as several Ethernet and one Token-Ring network adapters.
Figure 1: The IBM AIX Clsuter
The machines are connected to each other and to the campus network as shown in the diagram here.
For additional information on the AIX System, go here.
In addition to providing login accounts and mail, the AIX cluster also provided gopher and web services via oboe (the 99J) and relayed information to the Directory Server.
Revised by: George Westlund (gwestlun@calpoly.edu)
