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About Socrates
Socrates is a Sun Fire v880 Server purchased to improve and expand the academic and research computing services available to the campus. Socrates Services are meant for users who need a variety of computational resources and who use UNIX based programs and other specialty software. Socrates is not meant for email access and Socrates' email service will be abated in March 2005. For more information about General Campus email accounts, please visit the CalMail Homepage.Here are the specifications on Socrates: Socrates has four 900 MHz UltraSPARC-III processors, eight gigabytes of memory, and is connected to ACS' Storage Area Network. It runs the Solaris 2.8 operating system , which is based on System V R4, a version of UNIX which includes BSD (Berkeley UNIX) enhancements. One of the new server's advantages is that the cost of adding a new CPU (up to a maximum of 8) or a new disk is relatively small, so that resources can be expanded quickly as campus demand grows.
One of the benefits of a Solaris SPARC system is that almost any commercial UNIX software you can name runs on Solaris--more than on any other UNIX architecture or operating system. Most UNIX software vendors port to Solaris before other UNIX variants.
Socrates has the basic applications such as Internet access (Web servers, secure ftp, SSH shell login), text editors, printing, and the X Window System. It comes with ANSI C, Fortran, and Pascal. The IMSL and NAG mathematical libraries have been installed. The GNU C and C++ compilers have been installed. Matlab is available for classes. Other applications will be installed as time goes on. A more detailed list of the specific products avaliable on Socrates can be found on the Products web page.
Socrates Website Credits:
Content Development & Editorial: Phillip Leclair
Design: Mary Pezzuto & Phillip Leclair
Please send comments to: calweb_consult@berkeley.edu.
For additional questions, see Questions.
Last updated 20 April 2005.