The FLC Hosts
The FLC group has a set of desktop computers with names currently ranging from flc01 to flc49 – see the FLC computing pages for details about these machines. There are also a couple of other computers which are used by the FLC subgroups (mainly ATLAS and CMS) and which are decoupled from the common computing infrastructure.
- There are three main servers for the FLC group:
flcl01 serves multiple purposes – it can be used for remote login (hence its name), it provides a certain amount of data storage (currently 170 GB) and it is included in the central backup. flcl01 has two CPUs and a bit of RAM (currently 1 GB), but you should not abuse it as a working horse for CPU-expensive jobs. Keep in mind that the disk space has to shared among approximately 50 users – please don’t be inconsiderate.
lc3 and lc4 are file servers which provide large amounts of data storage (currently 1.4 TB on each machine). However, you should note that they are – at least in principle – only intended as a temporary storage for jobs which run on the FLC batch clusters. Therefore they are not included in the FLC backup.
FLC has a batch cluster which can be used to run multiple computing jobs in parallel.