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The Skullspace virtual machine service (vmsrv) is offered to members as a means to share the power of best-available hardware as widely as possible:
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==Philosophy==
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The Skullspace virtual machine service (vmsrv) is offered to members as a means to share the power of best-available hardware.
 
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"Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total." -- Steven Levy on the hacker ethic
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"Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total."
 
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As such, we support two styles of computing:
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* Interactive computing -- temporary bursts of high resource use (IO/CPU/memory) by a single user for the purpose of "figuring stuff out", "getting stuff done", "hacking", etc. with the ethic of ensuring resources are freed when not in use. "Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!"
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* General service computing -- always up and running services with reasonable IO, CPU, and memory use that doesn't impair the above. (services with intense all the time resource requirements should be operated on dedicated servers)
  
As such, we support two styles of computing:
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==System==
* Interactive computing -- temporary bursts of high resource use (IO/CPU/memory) by a single user for the purpose of "getting stuff done", with the ethic of ensuring resources are released (or swapped out!) when not in use.
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* Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33G (does not have VT extensions!)
"Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!" -- Steven Levy again
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* [http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Gigabyte-EP45-UD3L-Motherboard/705/3 Gigabyte-EP45-UD3L motherboard]
* General service computing -- always up and running services with reasonable IO, CPU, and memory use that doesn't impair the above. (services with intense resource requirements that need to be always on should be operated on dedicated servers)
 

Revision as of 02:38, 25 May 2012

Philosophy

The Skullspace virtual machine service (vmsrv) is offered to members as a means to share the power of best-available hardware.

"Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total."

As such, we support two styles of computing:

  • Interactive computing -- temporary bursts of high resource use (IO/CPU/memory) by a single user for the purpose of "figuring stuff out", "getting stuff done", "hacking", etc. with the ethic of ensuring resources are freed when not in use. "Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!"
  • General service computing -- always up and running services with reasonable IO, CPU, and memory use that doesn't impair the above. (services with intense all the time resource requirements should be operated on dedicated servers)

System