Taro
Taro is a data/computation server. Thinkmate serial number SN-826407.
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?)
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.
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)
VMWare
Taro is running VMWare Server version 2.0.2. It acts as a secondary virtualization server. It is accessible at https://taro.unh.edu:8333/ or from localhost:8222 if you're logged in or port forwarding over SSH. There are currently not Virtual Machines running on Taro.
Taro is now running KVM. We mainly use this for testing new VMs and breaking things.
KVM
Along with Gourd and Tomato, Taro has a license for KVM from RedHat.
