Taro

Taro is a data/computation server. Thinkmate serial number SN-826407.

Taro: A large-leaved plant grown throughout the tropics for its edible starchy roots

Hardware Details

• Purchased in Jan 2009 from Thinkmate.
• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® E5472 3.00GHz 1600FSB 12MB Cache (80W)
• Supermicro X7DWA-N - EATX - Intel® 5400 Chipset
• 4 x 2GB PC2-6400 677MHz FB-DIMM
• Chenbro SR107 EATX Chassis - No PS – Black + Rack Mount Conversion Kit
• 2 x Chenbro SR107 Black 4-Bay SATA Hotswap
• PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool® 860 - SLI Ready
• 500GB SATA 7200RPM - 3.5" - Seagate Barracuda® 7200.11
• Samsung 22x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer (SATA)
• MSI nVidia GeForce N280GTX OC 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 (2xDVI) (Removed?)
• Areca-ARC 1231 12-channel RAID card on address: 10.0.0.97

Local copy of the Motherboard manual

Network Configuration

Taro's network configuration contains bridge interfaces to support KVM virtual machines.

• IP address Farm: 10.0.0.247 (eth1/farmbr)
• IP address UNH: 132.177.88.86 (eth2/unhbr)

Hostnames: taro.unh.edu, taro.farm.physics.unh.edu

Software and Services

Taro is one of the few systems that has a bit more accessibility from off-campus. It requires additional monitoring to make sure everything is working and there are no compromises on security. Taro stores a considerable amount of data on its RAID

Globus

This is a system for transferring data to/from Jlab. See more on the globus page.

IPTables

Taro uses the standard NPG iptables firewall. Taro allows ssh, icmp, portmap and nfs connections.

NFS Shares

Taro serves its /data volume over NFS. It can be accessed from any system via automount either in /net/data/taro or /net/taro/data.

/etc/exports

/data   @servers(rw,sync) @npg_clients(rw,sync) \
       10.0.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync)

Drive configuration

RAID

• RAID Is hardware based with an ARECA card at ip 10.0.0.97
• Current setup is RAID-5 across 6 drives, with a 7th drive as a hot spare.
• There is a singe volume on the RAID, lun 0/0/0