The Tardis Project is a computing facility, run and maintained by students of The University of Edinburgh. It was one of the first such projects of its kind, founded in 1987 by the School of Informatics (previously Department of Computer Science) and is still held in high regard. Tardis provides services to members of the University, such as web hosting and mail access.
One of the Tardis Project's main aims is to allow students at the university to be involved in running a large computing system, and learn the experience required to design, build and maintain such a system.
Accounts are open to all students and staff, for more information, please see the Account Applications link, or contact us with any queries you may have.
More about the Tardis Project and its purpose can be found in The Tardis Charter.
[edit] Next meeting
We regularly have meetings in the The Auld Hoose on Mondays at 1830. All are welcome and we would especially like to meet any freshers interested in the project or who want accounts.
If you would like to chat to existing tardis users, our timelords or assistants (sysadmins) please join our IRC channel: #tardis on ImaginaryNET.
[edit] Current Events
[edit] Tardis has moved to Forest Hill
We have temporarily moved Tardis to Forest Hill. We are still looking for a pertinent home (maybe AT?). More information here.
[edit] Events
Here is a list of current changes, major problems and developments going on in tardisland. Hopefully this will be kept up to date...
- Upgrading to Debian Lenny.
- New SSL certificate for Tardis.
- Our old self-signed one has expired. Perhaps it's worth looking into a Edinburgh or JANET/GlobalSign signed one. See [1] for more details.
- Setting up the new Sun machines and adding them to Tardis:
- Also known as "getting shit out of my flat and in to the rack..." --sjh
- Migrate Mara onto the Sun Fire 280R
- Migrate Ace onto
one of ;-) the two Netra T1's
- Again, one of the last U5's and being such an important role i'd like to see it moved onto a better machine.
- The Backup Infrastructure needs to be addressed.
- We need a bigger chassis/more disks. I have some parts laying around, hopefully we can get enough parts together to build something half decent.
See also Admin Projects.
If you would like to help us with or you would like to learn about how we are doing any of the above projects please contact us at support@tardis.ed.ac.uk.
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Infrequently updated - for a more realistic picture see Recent Changes.
[edit] 29 September 2009
- Tardis had a meeting to discuss the future i.e. moving out of Forest Hill and other infrastructure related things.
[edit] 7 August 2009
- Six Sun U1 boxes were installed in the rack (with correct mountings - thanks Pert!), two of them will run Tardis services (possibly NFS/backup) and the other four will replace the five beowulf cluster boxes which were decommissioned to make room in the rack. Currently none of the boxes are running (no OS etc) but they should be fairly shortly.
- Mantis, the new webserver, is currently being commissioned and should be in service soon.
[edit] 31 July 2009
- Mantis, the new webserver was setup using some complicated adaptors to plug in into the serial console. It should start operations shortly.
[edit] 5 June 2009
- The Sun Fire 280r that is to serve as our webserver was installed in the rack. We didn't have time to set it up properly/network it however.
- Downtime was scheduled so we could also re-arrange the cabling. All dual-PSU boxes (ex. Oracle) now have two power supplies, one from each of the distro units.
[edit] 27 April 2009
- Wiki has been given a makeover so it can be a front for Tardis. It's still a bit slow but that is the webserver's fault.
[edit] 07 February 2009
- We have completed the Move of Piper to the new box. It remains called Piper however, as that made the move simpler.
[edit] 13:12, 11 July 2008 (BST)
- The move to Forest Hill went well. One PSU died, one disk had some issues and there's a bit more work to do on the web server but, other than that, tardis is working once more.
[edit] 19:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- We had some downtime today for for power testing. All is well.
[edit] 14:10, 22 November 2006 (GMT)
[edit] 21:29, 5 July 2006 (BST)
- People are on holiday. New switch going in soon. Mostly, all is well.
[edit] 23:58, 18 February 2006 (GMT)
- Downtime didn't happen in the end, we were all somewhat relieved.
- NFS Transition onto piper went well, aside from a mild duplication of mail. Next on the agenda is the decommissioning of Baker and Colin.
[edit] 19:20, 7 February 2006 (GMT)
- Downtime happening soon. Sadly in a non-derministic fashion. Some things are out of our control.
- The wiki is now publicly readable, but not editable. If you would like an account, speak to seth. Maybe one day we'll get LDAP auth.
[edit] 00:57, 18 January 2006 (GMT)
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