Sun Solaris Workstations

Policy

• Never turn off a Sun Solaris workstation.
• All Sun Solaris workstations are configured identically to run continuously 24 hours per day, 365 days per annum.
• The Sun Solaris workstations are fully managed by the School IT team. No user intervention is allowed.
• All Solaris workstations allow multiple concurrent jobs from console users and remote logins alike.
• Groups of workstations are clustered into "CPU farms" and users should remotely login to a "farm" in order that the load is spread evenly across the available resource.

Current Integration Status.

• The SEE Sun standard deployment is current in Alrick, Faraday, Sanderson and SMC buildings.
• A single pilot SEE standard system has been installed in each of Crew and Kenneth Denbigh buildings (Jan 2003).

Applications

• An extensive selection of applications is available for running on the Sun Workstations.
• Any external software required should be submitted to the IT team for approval and mounting.

CPU Farms

• The Unix command man tlc explains how to use and launch jobs on the various farms.
• The progress of Long running/large jobs (ie CPU loading on busy machines) is updated hourly.