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Development Hardware

This article aims to detail all of the known WorldsAway development servers and workstations. This list may be incomplete, so if you have any information regarding these, please get in touch.

WorldsAway Development Hardware
Machine Name	Machine Type	Machine Purpose	Notes
altair			This may have been the workstation of Jean-Luc Vaillant
akasha		This seems to have been a staging area for new client and server builds of the WorldsAway software.	John Onusko's workstation.
a-tuin		The main production server that hosted the dreamscape, hallway/hotel and pride.
eridu			Possibly Chris Parry/laotzu's workstation.
excelsior		Not sure if this was for WorldsAway, or an internal Fujitsu Software Corporation server.
goblin		A pager email gateway.
golf	Sun SPARCStation		Doug Marshall's workstation. Used for developing the "IVAN" world management tool. "IVAN" stands for "Interverse Admin Network".
ishtar	Sun SPARCcenter 2000	email, home directories, file storage, etc	Put into production usage on 30th July 1996.
ivanova	Sun SPARCStation 20
kirk		A server used by the QA team for testing.	Usually used for QA testing, it was also used as a backup machine if a-tuin was down for more than three hours. This was a red-line option to be considered in case of catastrophic hardware failure on a-tuin, not for 'routine' machine lock-ups.
kosh	Sun SPARCStation 20		Possibly David Petersons workstation.
loki			Replaced by ishtar in July 1996 to perform tasks such as nameservice, mail transport, backups, network management etc.
morpheus		A world building machine that went into production in mid 1997.
mundo
mugwump			Possibly David Eves workstation.
snoopy
tao			Possibly Norman Morses's workstation.
terra
vishnu		A production server that later became a billing server in mid 1997.

akasha

John Onusko's workstation, named "akasha"

Akasha was John Onusko's workstation. John was the person who wrote a lot of the server side code for WorldsAway. Akasha was also used to host different client and server builds, as well as some server backups in the earlier days. This will be expanded upon in a future article update.

Configuration

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a-tuin

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Configuration

4 processors and room for further expansion (as of October 1996)

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Kirk

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Configuration

2 processors which was the max capacity of the system (as of October 1996)
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In January 1997, there were three QA WorldsAway servers in place on Kirk.

test - For QA test automation and performance analysis only - port 10060
qaone - For QA (QA only) - port 10070
qatwo - For development and production scripting - port 10080

Kosh

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 == Development Hardware ==
-This article aims to detail all of the known WorldsAway development servers and workstations. This list may be incomplete, so if you have any information regarding these, please get in touch.
+This article aims to detail all of the known WorldsAway development servers and workstations. This list may be incomplete, so if you have any information regarding these, please get in [mailto:stuart@renoproject.org touch].
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 WorldsAway Development Hardware
 !Machine Name
+!Machine Type
 !Machine Purpose
 !Notes
+|-
+|altair
+|
+|
+|This may have been the workstation of Jean-Luc Vaillant
 |-
 |akasha
+|
 |This seems to have been a staging area for new
 client and server builds of the WorldsAway
 software.
-|John Onusko's workstation
+|John Onusko's workstation.
 |-
 |a-tuin
+|
 |The main production server that hosted the dreamscape,
 hallway/hotel and pride.
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 |eridu
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-|Possibly Chris Parry/laotzu's workstation
+|
+|Possibly Chris Parry/laotzu's workstation.
 |-
 |excelsior
+|
 |Not sure if this was for WorldsAway,
 or an internal Fujitsu Software Corporation
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 |goblin
 |
+|A pager email gateway.
 |
+|-
+|golf
+|Sun SPARCStation
+|
+|Doug Marshall's workstation. Used for developing the "IVAN" world
+management tool. "IVAN" stands for "Interverse Admin Network".
 |-
 |ishtar
-|Potentially a mail server.
+|Sun SPARCcenter 2000
+|email, home directories, file storage, etc
+|Put into production usage on 30th July 1996.
+|-
+|ivanova
+|Sun SPARCStation 20
+|
 |
 |-
 |kirk
+|
 |A server used by the QA team for testing.
 |Usually used for QA testing, it was also used as a backup machine
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 |kosh
+|Sun SPARCStation 20
 |
-|Possibly David Petersons workstation
+|Possibly David Petersons workstation.
 |-
 |loki
 |
 |
+|Replaced by ishtar in July 1996 to perform tasks such
+as nameservice, mail transport, backups, network management etc.
 |-
 |morpheus
+|
+|A world building machine that went into production in mid 1997.
+|
+|-
+|mundo
+|
 |
 |
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 |
 |
+|Possibly David Eves workstation.
 |-
 |snoopy
 |
 |
+|
+|-
+|tao
+|
+|
+|Possibly Norman Morses's workstation.
 |-
 |terra
+|
 |
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 |vishnu
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+|A production server that later became a billing server
+in mid 1997.
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 === akasha ===
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+Akasha was John Onusko's workstation. John was the person who wrote a lot of the server side code for WorldsAway. Akasha was also used to host different client and server builds, as well as some server backups in the earlier days. This will be expanded upon in a future article update.
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 ==== Configuration ====
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+=== a-tuin ===
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-=== a-tuin ===
+==== Configuration ====
+* 4 processors and room for further expansion (as of October 1996)
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+=== Kirk ===
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+==== Configuration ====
+* 2 processors which was the max capacity of the system (as of October 1996)
+* 32GB RAID configuration
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+==== Purpose ====
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+In January 1997, there were three QA WorldsAway servers in place on Kirk.
+* test - For QA test automation and performance analysis only - port 10060
+* qaone - For QA (QA only) - port 10070
+* qatwo - For development and production scripting - port 10080
+=== Kosh ===
 ==== Configuration ====
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