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| ===== Requirements for Department-supported Linux systems ===== | ===== Requirements for Department-supported Linux systems ===== | ||
| - | * Your hardware must be directly supported by our version of Linux, in particular without use of third party network or storage drivers. | + | * Your hardware must be directly supported by our Linux distribution, in particular without use of third party network or storage drivers. |
| * We are always happy to advise on hardware purchase based on your requirements and budget. | * We are always happy to advise on hardware purchase based on your requirements and budget. | ||
| * The primary hard drive will be devoted entirely to the operating system. | * The primary hard drive will be devoted entirely to the operating system. | ||
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| * We cannot support dual-boot systems. | * We cannot support dual-boot systems. | ||
| - | ===== Server and storage | + | Data storage |
| - | We would prefer | + | We expect |
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| - | For small-scale simple data storage (up to a few TB), we support use of additional hard drives in any workstation or server (external drives, eg USB, are not supported for permanent storage). | + | |
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| - | For large-scale (multi-TB) storage, we support a variety of technologies. | + | |
| - | * many groups use hardware RAID systems attached to our SAN (storage area network); this can be used to support storage in the 20-100TB range. | + | |
| - | * at slightly smaller scale, there is some use of internal hardware or software RAID in servers. | + | |
| - | * for specialized use cases, we are supporting Hadoop HDFS for some research groups. | + | |
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| - | ===== Operating System version information ===== | + | |
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| - | Please refer to [[version_support|this page]] for more information on our supported versions of unix and the differences between them. | + | |