Winston

Winston is the heavy lifting server for the group. It was bought to allow the assembly and annotation of genomes and has been used to annotate the Bowhead whale genome. The server usually runs under a heavy load when in use.

Specifications

  • Viglen built rack mount
  • 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz (4 core)
  • 512GiB Memory
  • 7.4TiB disk space (hardware RAID)
    • 100mb (/boot)
    • 7.2TiB (/)

Services

  • Database server (PostgreSQL)

Mounts

  • /base (larder:/larder/homes)

Location

Winston is located in the CSD building on the ground floor, in the datacenter room.

Winston is located in the CSD building, ground floor, datacenter room.