Website:History

=Cluster History=

At one time the lab was funded by the CS department, but this is no longer the case. The UGCS lab was used for classes up to and including the 2002-2003 school year. After classes stoped being held in UGCS, it continued as a student run Unix cluster open to the caltech comunity.

Current and past sysadmins of the UGCS/CS10 lab
Name                 House/yr* Username    Start   - end -- Scott Hemphill         gr? [hemphill]    ?? -   91 Rick Koshi              Da 91   [rhkoshi]   06/88   - 09/89 Dave Gillespie         Da 86   [daveg]     06/88   - 09/89 Walker Aumann          Bl 92   [walkera]   06/89   - 09/89 Bo Adler               Da 93   [thumper]   10/89   - 06/93 Dean Brettle           Da 92   [dean]      10/89   - 12/91 Maneesh Sahani         Da 91   [maneesh]   10/89   - 03/92 Yair Zadik             Da 92   [yair]      01/91   - 10/91 Alf Mikula             Da 93   [mikula]    06/91   - 10/91 Waqar Malik            gr      [waqar]     06/91   - 08/92 Jamie Sherman          Da 94   [jamie]     07/91   - 06/92 Jon Lange              Da 93   [jlange]    10/91   - 07/93 Laurent Stadler        Da 95   [lstadler]  11/91   - 11/92 Karen Bruner           Da 94   [napalm]    01/93   - 10/94 Dan Egnor              Da 96   [egnor]     04/93   - 06/96 Seth LaForge           Da 97   [sethml]    10/93   - 06/97 Blake Jones            Ll 98   [foo]       10/95   - 06/98 Wesley Tanaka          Da 99   [wtanaka]   06/96   - 09/96 Aaron Denney           Ru 00   [wnoise]    06/97   - 09/00 Harry Liu              Bl 01   [rliu]      05/98   - 06/01 Shannon Stewman        Ri 01   [stew]      05/98   - 06/01 Dylan Simon            NA 03   [dylan]     09/00   - 06/03 David Stafford         Da 04   [dstaff]    05/01   - 06/04 Evan Murphy            Ru 07   [erm]       01/03   - 03/07 Joshua Goldstein       Da 07   [goldstei]  01/03   - 01/07 Kenneth Heafield       Da 07   [kpu]       01/04   - 03/07 Elizabeth Fong      Da/Bl 09   [elizabeth] 01/06   - 01/08 Alex Roper          Da/Bl 09   [alexr]     01/07   - present Matthew Maurer      Da/Bl 10   [maurer]    01/07   - present Joshua Hutchins        Ru 10   [jdhutchin] 01/07   - present

-- House/yr* = primary UG house affiliation, and year UG degree finished (or went on leave). NA = not affiliated

Stories
Joshua adds, "After a discussion with Bo Adler over Alumni weekend, it was revealed that the lab ran a custom-written Unix and some GNU software in the early 1990s. The lab started with a bunch of HP machines used for insument readings and grew from there."

From Jon Lange: UGCS came into existence in the spring of 1989, I believe (when it was known as the CS10 lab). Before that, it was the "Chipmunk" lab (the machines that are possibly still used by the CNS184 students). Those machines ran some proprietary HP Pascal system.

The original crew, as I recall, was Dave Gillespie, Scott Hemphill, Rick Koshi (he took his wife's name, and is now Rick Heaton), and Walker Aumann. Scott Hemphill may have never been an official sysadmin, but he had root for quite a long time (until 1991 at least).

[ snip - list included in above ]

I can't think of anybody else who was ever a sysadmin, but then I was never really involved in lab politics until early 1991. You could also send email to any of the former sysadmins to find out what they remember (I doubt you'd hear back from Dave Gillespie or Rick Koshi) -- most of them would probably be glad to answer you. And I see that Scott Hemphill still has an account (which he's used rather recently), and I'll be he's full of lab lore. Of course, if you talk to anybody who was around before the summer of 1991, you'll have to call it the CS10 lab if you want expect them to have any clue what you're talking about.

One of these days when I turn on my SPARC again, I can dig through old email and see if I can get a clue about who was a sysadmin at what time.