Parker

Parker is the second server bought and serves as a general purpose bioinformatics machine. Due to my shortsightedness when building and formatting the machine all programs that are compiled are stored in /opt on a separate partition due to lack of space on the main partition.

Specifications

  • Custom built rack mount
  • 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz (6 core, hyperthreaded for 12)
  • 48GiB Memory, 100GiB Swap
  • 7TiB disk space (6 disks)
    • 9.6MiB GRUB
    • md0: 100GiB RAID10 (/)
    • md1: 100GiB RAID10 (swap)
    • md2: 6.9TiB RAID6 (/base1; soon to be /opt)

Services

  • Database server (PostgreSQL)

Mounts

  • /base (larder:/larder/homes)

Location

Important

Parker requires a key to access the front panel; This is tied to the handle.

Parker is located on the top of the first rack to the right when entering the Life Sciences server room.