This page has some information about desktop computers at CATS.

Apple PowerMac

PowerMac and Mac Pro computers navier, stokes, karman, blasius, prandtl, reynolds, rayleigh, taylor, mach, euler, sommerfeld, kelvin, hill, oseen, galerkin, orr, froude and falkner serve as research desktops.

Hardware

• CPU: 1.8–2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 or 2.0-2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo Xeon
• RAM: 512–2048 MB DDR400/DDR2 RAM
• HD: 80–320 GB Serial ATA

Software

• Mac OS 10.4–10.6, Quicktime Pro, iWork
• IBM XL Fortran 8.1 and XL C 6.0 or Intel Fortran and C 10.1
• Matlab 7.0 and Simulink
• Microsoft Office 2004–2008
• Adobe Creative Studio CS1–CS3
• Maintentance log (internal)

Apple iMac

iMac computers hamilton, jacobi, lagrange, newton, hooke, coriolis, gauss, leibniz, ritter, young, steiner, poisson, hilbert, cardan, kepler, bernoulli, legendre, fourier, cauchy, riemann, varignon, eriksen, rivlin, truesdell, galois, abel serve as staff and student desktops.

Hardware

• CPU: 1.6–1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 or 2.0–2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo
• RAM: 256–512 MB DDR400 or 1 GB DDR2
• HD: 80–240 GB Serial ATA

Software

• Mac OS 10.3–10.6
• Maintentance log (internal)

Apple iBook

iBook G4 laptop moby is the portable CATS computer.

Hardware

• 1.4 GHz PowerPC G4 CPU
• 512 MB DDR133 RAM
• 30 GB IDE HD

Software

• Mac OS 10.4, iWork, Adobe CS 3

Apple MacBook

MacBook ahab is another portable CATS computer.

Hardware

• 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
• 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• 160 GB SATA HD

Software

• Mac OS 10.4, Adobe CS 3

Apple PowerBook G4 15"

PowerBook G4 laptop blackbird is a portable CATS computer.

Hardware

• 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 CPU
• 1.25 GB RAM
• 75 GB ATA HD

Software

• Mac OS 10.5

To track the portable systems have a look in our Portable Log (internal)

Silicon Graphics

For compatibility with old SGIs we used at Rice University, we have a single SGI O2 aristotle retired from the computing center.

Hardware

• 180 MHz MIPS R5000 CPU
• 384 MB RAM
• 18 GB SCSI HD
• A collection of antique tape drives

Software

• IRIX 6.5
• Maintentance log (internal)

Philips Senseo

Senseo truegene is the backup coffee supply for the staff at Schinkelstr.

Hardware

• Philips Senseo HD 7820 black
• dual core (get up to two cups simultanously)
• vertically adjustable coffee outlet
• 1.2 l removable water reservoir
• 1450 W
• approx. capacity of 60 cups per hour

Usage

ssh truegene.cats.rwth-aachen.de
cd src/pads/
make coffee [-w,-wo] <milk, sugar>