BatMUD hardware - - - - - - - - The core services of BatMUD are currently running on four (4) 1U x86 (64-bit) architecture based Dell rack servers. The older hardware, since decommissioned, is listed here for reference. Our current data center offers us link-redundant 10Gb LAN and link-redundant 1Gbps uplinks towards the Internet, with both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity via a dedicated /26 IPv4 network and a dedicated /48 IPv6 prefix. Server nicknamed "Ahm": - main game server (batmud.bat.org, hcbat.bat.org) o a DELL PowerEdge R650 (1U) server w/ redundant titanium power supplies o 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6334 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 8c, HT[disabled] o 256GB memory (16x 16GB DDR4-3200 RDIMMs) o PERC H755N integrated raid controller o eight (8) 1.6TB Enterprise P5600 NVMes (RAID-10) o 2x 480GB M.2 BOSS (RAID-1) for hypervisor Server nicknamed "Kauwenda": - main support server o a DELL PowerEdge R650 (1U) server w/ redundant titanium power supplies o 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6334 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 8c, HT o 256GB memory (16x 16GB DDR4-3200 RDIMMs) o PERC H755N integrated raid controller o eight (8) 1.6TB Enterprise P5600 NVMes (RAID-5) o 2x 480GB M.2 BOSS (RAID-1) for hypervisor Server nicknamed "Rhino": - development server o a DELL PowerEdge R630 (1U) server w/ redundant titanium power supplies o 2x Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 3.40GHz w/ 20MB cache, 135W, 6C, HT, 9.6GT/s QPI, Turbo o 256GB memory (16x 16GB 2400MHz Dual Rank x8 data width RDIMMs) o PERC H730P integrated raid controller, 2GB NV cache o eight (8) 200GB write intensive SSD MLC 12Gbps hot-plug drives (RAID-5) Server nicknamed "Moonrind": - management and secondary support server o a DELL PowerEdge R620 (1U) x8 Base server w/ redundant titanium power supply o 2x Intel Xeon E5-2643 v1 3.30GHz w/ 10MB Cache, 130W, 4C, HT, 8.0GT/s QPI, Turbo o 128 GB memory (8x 16GB 1600MHz Dual Rank LV RDIMMs) o PERC H710p Integrated Raid Controller, 1GB NV Cache o two (2) 175GB PCIe SSD (SLC) Hotpluggable drives o four (4) 1.2TB SAS (10k RPM, 6Gbps) Hotpluggable drives (RAID-10) DECOMMISSIONED HARDWARE: Server nicknamed "Ix'ixixiblat": o a DELL PowerEdge 2950-III (2U size) server w/ redundant power supply o 2x Intel Quad-Core Xeon X5460 3.16GHz/2x6MB 1333FSB o 32GB 667MHz FBD (8x4GB dual rank DIMMs) o PERC 6/iR, Integrated Controller Card x6 backplane o four (4) 146GB SAS (15.000 rpm) 3.5-inch Hard Drives (RAID-10) o two (2) 1T SATA 3.5-inch Hard Drives (RAID-1) o MTRON Pro7000 32GB SSD 3.5-inch SATA Server nicknamed "Torturer": o a DELL PowerEdge 2850 (2U size) server w/ two (redundant) power supplies o 2 x Intel Xeon 3.8GHz processors w/ 2MB L2 cache o 8GB DDR2 SDRAM 400MHz memory o a PERC 4e/DC U320 Dual-channel RAID w/ battery backup o six (6) 146GB U320 SCSI 15K RPM drives Server nicknamed "Baal": o Tyan Transport TA26 (2U size) server chassis w/ two redundant power supp. o 2 x AMD Opteron 250 (2.4GHz) 64-bit processors o 4GB DDR ECC REG 400MHz memory o LSI MegaRAID Ultra320 Dual-channel w/ battery backup o eight (8) Seagate Cheetah 15.3K ST336607LC 37GB drives Each of the disksystems utilize appropriate RAID setups varying from RAID-1 to RAID-10. The operating system base on both servers is Linux, as Solaris was used in the older server equipment (years ago). While more and more powerful solutions emerge into the market, B.A.T. ry feels strong responsibility in choosing the most reliable and also proven functional platfrom. New upgrade options are considered on basis of need, as such hardware options become available and have been thoroughly tested. Latest hardware changes: o 25-Aug-21 Two all-new all-NVMe servers nicknamed "Ahm" and "Kauwenda" have been installed and taken into use. At the same time, Bat is migrating to a new data center with better connectivity. o 30-Oct-16 A new all-flash storage server nicknamed "Rhino" is being installed. This DELL PowerEdge R630 physically replaces the Torturer -server, but becomes the game's new main server. o 01-Sep-13 Game services were moved to Moonrind, a new DELL PowerEdge R620 -server. This change will decomission the old Torturer -server, while Ix'ixixiblat becomes the supporting server. o 24-Apr-08 Game services were moved to Ix'ixixiblat, a new DELL PowerEdge 2950 -server. o 01-Apr-06 Game services were moved to Torturer, the new DELL PowerEdge 2850 -server. Both HC and Bat now run on it, while Baal handles the other services. o 24-Mar-06 The servers Tiamat and Narcuul were moved out of "production" status and now act as development/testing systems. o 30-Oct-04 Baal! Our new machine is now in action. Tiamat (Tyan S2426 Thunder, 2xAthlon MP 2600+, 2GB ECC DDR, Mylex eXtremeRAID 2000, several Seagate Cheetah X15 drives, etc) is no longer the main game-server. o 26-Feb-03 Tiamat received Athlon MP 2600+ processors and Narcuul received Tiamat's 'old' Athlon MP 1900+ (1600MHz) ones o ??-Sep-02 Narcuul's 'old' motherboard was replaced by ASUS' A7M266-D o 16-Sep-02 the fourth 512MB chip of memory was finally added to Tiamat o 12-Feb-02 replaced 'old' (2) AMD Athlon K7 1200MHz -processors (on Tiamat) o **-Dec-01 the old SUN U60 was replaced with x86-based hardware The elder hardware history (1990 - 2001): [ Autumn 1998 - ] Sun Ultra 60 o 2x 360MHz UltraSPARCs w/ 4MB cache o 1280MB mem (memory had to later be reduced to 768MB, some might have been bad) o 8.4GB internal disk and 4x 8.5GB external disks (total 42.4GB) o Solaris 2.6 [ Spring 1997 - ] Tatung COMPstation U2MP (Sun Ultra 2 compatible) o 200MHz UltraSPARC CPU o 320MB memory o 4GB + 4GB disks o Solaris 2.5.1 [ Spring 1994 - ] Tatung Super COMPstation 10 (equivalent to Sun SparcServer 10/71) o 75MHz SuperSparcII CPU (with 1M cache) o 160 megabytes RAM o 4G SCSI disk o DAT-tapedevice (capacity is 4-16G) o Solaris 2.4 [ Autumn 1993 - ] Tatung Sparc Classic clone (equivalent to Sun SparcServer 10/40, later upgraded to match SS10/51) o CPU: 50MHz? o Memory: 96MB o Disk: 1.2GB o Solaris 2.2 (later 2.3) [ September 1995 ] o The old 50MHz Super Sparc CPU was toasted. The machine is now left with only one CPU. Max limit of players was set to 160. [ 12th of July 1995 ] o A second CPU (75 MHz Super SparcII) was installed; simultaneously, the max mortal limit was raised to 200 to test the capability of the new hardware configuration. [ September 1994 ] o First a 16M SIMM module was added and later a 64M SIMM module was added. The machine now has 160M of memory [ 24th of May 1994 ] o The machine was upgraded to the SS10/51. [ 28th of April 1994 ] o The new computer arrived. However, it was only an SS10/40, not an SS10/51 as ordered. A free upgrade to an SS10/51 was promised, The upgrade should be made during the summer. The machine had 80M of memory and one 1.5G disk. The operating system was Solaris 2.3. [ 4th of March 1994 ] o The Classic was sold and a new faster machine, an SS10/51, was ordered. BatMUD borrowed a SparcStation 1 where the game could be run wizardlocked. [ 12th of November 1993 ] o BatMUD was moved from palikka to the new computer which was located again in the Helsinki University of Technology under the name, bat.cs.hut.fi. [ 1993 ] o Balanced Alternative Techniques ry bought a Tatung Sparc Classic clone. It had 96 megs of memory and one 1.2G disk. The operating system was Solaris 2.2. [ December 1992 ] o Disk usage of BatMUD was too large. We had two choices: either we move to another site or buy a new disk. Players of BatMUD started to make donations (see plaque in Arelium church). The money was spent on a 200M SCSI disk. As money was left after buying the disk, another 16 megs of memory was purchased. The disk and the memory were installed into palikka.cs.hut.fi [ 1991 ] o There were problems with local "stuff" at Tampere University of Technology. A new place was found with Otto Mäkelä (Extechop) in Jyväskylä. The Jyväskylä University gave permission to run BatMUD in palikka.jyu.fi which is a Sun SparcStation 2 with 56 megs of memory. The operating system was SunOS 4.1.3. o The situation in batgirl was becoming worse and Herwood and BatMUD were merged to make a single and larger mud. The new mud was moved to lehtori.tut.fi o A new LPMud called Herwood was founded in Tampere University of Technology by Niilo Neuvo (Anipa). It was running on a machine called lehtori.tut.fi [ 199? ] o The game was forced to move to batgirl.hut.fi (the name was later changed to batgirl.cs.hut.fi). The reason for the move was the fact that batman was an NFS server and it wasn't supposed to be running "anything else". Batgirl is a Sony NWS-1510 model with 12 megs of memory, ie. slower than batman. Because the game needed too much memory it was soon forced to be closed during working hours [ 14th of April 1990 ] o BatMUD was first opened to the public as batman.hut.fi, hence the name "bat" (the server later became batman.cs.hut.fi). The machine was a Sony NWS-1530 workstation running Sony NEWS-OS 3.3a (BSD 4.3) with 16 megs of memory. The machine was also the NFS-server for other Sony workstations in the student laboratory. (The founder of BatMUD was Janne Frösen (Jaf) who was also adminstrating the Sony workstations in the student laboratory.) B.A.T. ry

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