General Purpose Unix [GPU]

within U Toronto Information Technology Services - EIS

formerly UTCNS - U. of Toronto Computing and Network Services

formerly UTCC - U. of Toronto Computing and Communications

formerly UTCS - U. of Toronto Computing Services

formerly UTCC - U. of Toronto Computing Centre

Gpu domainname - gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca

Gpu UUCP name - utgpu

Hardware / Software

Gpu.UTCC is a VMware virtual machine running FreeBSD 10.4

Available Services

• E-mail
  • see Junk EMail and other network abuse
• USENET news
• Personal web pages
• Webmail
• misc new applications

Accounts / Access

For information about GPU accounts for CNS staff, please contact the UNIX Systems supervisor by phone at (416) 978-8853.

Gpu users can be reached using the following hostnames:

• utcc.utoronto.ca
• utcs.utoronto.ca
• gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca
• gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
• utgpu.UUCP
• utcc.toronto.edu
• utcs.toronto.edu
• gpu.utcc.toronto.edu
• gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
• cns.utoronto.ca
• eis.utoronto.ca

A brief history of GPU platforms:

• utcsstat (c.1978)
  • DEC [+] PDP 11/70 running PWB/UNIX 1.0

• utcs (c.1984)
  • DEC [+] VAX 11/750 running 4.2BSD UNIX [+]
    • aka utgpu

• utgpu (c.1988)
  • Sun 3/280 [+] running SunOS 3.5
    • aka gpu.utcs
    • aka utcs.toronto.edu
    • aka utcs.utoronto.ca
    • aka utorgpu.BITNET [ended. May/1996]

• gpu.utcs (c.1991)
  • Sun 4/490 [+] running SunOS 4.1
    • aka gpu.utcc
    • aka utcc.utoronto.ca
    • aka utcc.toronto.edu
    • primary nameserver for U Toronto domains utoronto.ca and toronto.edu
      campus-wide secondary nameservers were ...
      ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca , ns.cs.toronto.edu , bay.csri.toronto.edu , uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com
    • 1994 - some network functions spun off to dedicated Sun SPARCstation5 systems:
      • dense.utcc: UT campus primary DNS at 128.100.100.128
      • snort.utcc: UT campus secondary DNS at 128.100.102.201 (migrated from UGW).
      • timber.utcc: central syslog server.
      • emma.utcc: - dept LPD server.

        Emma.utcc was named after a 2yr old toddler who had charmed the staff at an initial UTORmail sign-up blitz.
        As of 2024 Emma.utcc, the LPD server, is still in service as a virtual machine.
        Have to wonder where Emma the toddler - now 32 yrs old - is these days.

    • 1997 - netnews (utgpu) migrated to alfalfa.utcs - an idle DEC Alpha workstation converted to NetBSD to run C News.
    • 1999 May 1 - commercial timeshare service suspended.

• gpu.utcc (Oct 7/1999)
  • DELL PowerEdge 2300 running RedHat Linux 7.3
    • aka cns.utoronto.ca

• gpu.utcc (Nov 2/2004)
  • AMD Athlon XP 3200+ cpu on an ASUS A7V600 motherboard in a system purchased from OTA [*] running Fedora Core 2

• gpu.utcc (Oct 16/2007)
  • DELL PowerEdge SC1430 running FreeBSD 6.2
    • aka eis.utoronto.ca

• gpu.utcc (Feb 23/2014)
  • FreeBSD 9.2 running in a VMware VM on Cisco UCS hardware.

  [*] OTA: a now-defunct PC shop which used be on the northeast corner of College and Major in Toronto.

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  Current and former GPU maintainers include:

  • Tom Molnar
  • P Kern
  • Evgueni Martynov
  • John Calvin
  • Jose Manuel Lopez Lujan
  • Robert Chen
  • Sean Despres
  • Orlando Javier Ramirez Martinez

  • Jae Chung
  • Vlad Vinogradov
  • Darren Jacobs
  • Vlad Patoka
  • Chris Siebenmann
  • Glenn Mackintosh
  • Rayan Zachariassen
  • Dennis Ferguson
  • John CheeWah
  • Geoff Collyer
  • Ian Darwin

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  ``Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes.''
  
  Warren Jackson, UTCS Director circa 1985.

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