Hardware
As of 2021, Netsoc has expanded its operations and now operates a fairly significant amount of hardware, almost all of which is active in the Maths department's server room in the Hamilton building.

Summing all 4 of our servers' specs, Netsoc has:
- 46 CPU cores (with SMT for 92 threads total)
- 304GiB RAM
- 34TB of storage
nintendo
nintendo
is our switch in the Maths server room rack for handling all
traffic, both internal and external. It's a Netgear GS748TS (48 port gigabit;
managed), donated by dev
. See the network docs for details on
its configuration.
cube
cube
is a Dell PowerEdge R410, the longest-running server in the Maths server
room (purchased new some_time_ago
). It's mounted on sliding rails, complete
with a fancy cable management arm.
Specs
- 2x Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz (6C12T each)
- 64GiB DDR3 (in 8x 8GiB RDIMM's, running at 1600MHz)
-
Storage (on built-in SATA controller, ordered by bay):
- Seagate Enterprise ST6000NM0024-1HT17Z (6TB, 7200rpm SATA)
- Western Digital Red WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0 (1TB, 5400rpm SATA)
- Western Digital Blue WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 (1TB, 7200rpm SATA)
- Western Digital Red WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0 (1TB, 5400rpm SATA)
-
Dual redundant power supplies (2x 500W)
napalm
napalm
is a Dell PowerEdge R710, purchased from dev
in 2020 (at a very
reasonable price 😉). It was previously used as his home server, where it had
been for 2 years (originally purchased from Bargain Hardware). It's mounted on
sliding rails.
Specs
- 2x Intel Xeon L5640 @ 2.27GHz (6C12T each)
- 48GiB DDR3 (in 12x 4GiB RDIMM's, running at 1333MHz, actual hardware DIMM speed TBC)
-
Storage (on a Dell PERC H200 flashed with IT-mode firmware, ordered by bay):
- Western Digital Blue WDC WD10EZEX-00KUWA0 (1TB, 7200rpm SATA)
- HP MB6000JEQUV (6TB, 7200rpm SAS)
- Western Digital Blue WDC WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0 (500GB, 7200rpm SATA)
- Western Digital Blue WDC WD5000AZLX-00CL5A0 (500GB, 7200rpm SATA)
- Western Digital Black WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0 (1TB, 7200rpm SATA)
-
Single (of two possible) power supply (1x 570W)
gandalf
gandalf
is an HP ProLiant DL380p (Gen8), kindly purchased for us by the CSC to
host society websites. It's our "newest" server (being purchased in mid-December
2020). It's mounted on static rails.
Specs
- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670 v1 @ 2.6GHz (8C16T each)
- 128GiB DDR3 (in 8x 16GiB RDIMM's, running at 1600MHz)
-
Storage (on an HP P420i in "HBA" mode, ordered by bay):
- HP MB4000JEFNC (4TB, 7200rpm SAS)
- HP MB4000JEFNC (4TB, 7200rpm SAS)
-
Dual redundant power supplies (2x 750W)
spoon

spoon
(or newspoon
) is a direct replacement for a very old Dell tower server
(also known as spoon
), purchased in 2018 with a CSC grant. It's effectively a
custom-built "gaming PC" without a GPU 😛.
Specs
- AMD Ryzen 2600X @ 3.6GHz
- 64GiB DDR4 (in 4x 16GiB DIMM's, running at 3000MHz)
-
Storage (on the built-in SATA controller, ordered by port):
- Western Digital Red WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0 (1TB, 5400rpm SATA)
- Western Digital Red WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0 (1TB, 5400rpm SATA)
- HGST Ulstrastar HUS726060ALE610 (6TB, 7200rpm SATA)
-
Single power supply (???W)
shoe
shoe
is a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GiB RAM model) which acts as a network boot server
and "gateway" into our private LAN (for access to each server's BMC for
example). shoe
lives inside spoon
(since it acts as a "BMC" via
Pi-KVM).