1 Mar 2006: Announcement by Head, CC

1. Two new systems have been added in the list of compute servers named as "akash1" and akash2". The configurations of the systems are as follows:-

AMD Opteron Dual Core 2.2 GHZ, Quad Processors
RAM -- 32 GB
Disks -- 1x145 GB (System disk), 3x300 GB (Users Disks)
OS -- LINUX (RHEL AS4 Update2)
Additional Softwares -- PGI Fortran compilers

Extra disk space with some limitaion may be provided to the needy users locally on the  systems. There would be no backup of the data stored on the local disks.

2. SG3400 (with 12 CPU and 8GB RAM) server was discontinued in February 2006. The  system is restarted. Since the system is out of AMC, we shall keep the server running till it is functioning well.

3. On Vyom server, NAG F95 compiler along with various NAG libraries has been installed. More details will be sent soon.