Difference between revisions of "System naming"

Revision as of 12:40, 23 October 2013

The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing" [1] [2]. This includes pioneers in similar relevant fields. Please note that pronunciation and spelling difficulties may rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.

Old names

Names used on systems no longer in use.

Knuth

Current names

machines should be available as hostname.lan.hackspace.org.uk from inside the space (just hostname should work). some machines are available from the outside as hostname.hack.rs

Turing (Bitfolk VM)
Babbage (Server in the space)
Lovelace (Workstation for Makerbot)
Tesla Replacement for Lovelace
Lorentz Dell Laptop
Flowers (Media PC)
Postel (The SGI O2)
Bell (Door entry/building management)
Marconi (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - source
Hopper (Vending machine)
Shannon (IRC Terminal)
Layzor -- (Patel was formerly the PC for laser cutter)
Church (Router)
Difference - Public Terminal
~~Dennis - Random spare goodish pc.~~ gone.
Capek Lobby display
Caxton HP Laserjet 2200D Printer
Boole (Boole) - ldap/spacenet, dhcp, dns, netboot, ntp, syslog etc.
Wilson (Door Entry for 447 Hackney Road) Wilson
Torvalds New 3D Printing Machine
Hamming new doorbot machine Richard Hamming
Booch emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing Grady Booch
Perlman new rpi, maybe backdoorbot or enrolement box Perlman
Asimov small pc used for talking to robots Asimov.
Denning network services machine (was boole) Denning.

See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.

Potential new machines currently under discussion

Borg (Anita Borg) - replacement for babbage and vm server
Zeus (Konrad Zuse) - 64 core, 512Gb RAM compute server.

Potential names

Potential names on the edge of the scheme

Adams - UUNET
Armstrong - FM
Backus - Naur Form
Beer - Regulatory systems
Black - Feedback amp
Brown - Servomechanics
Darwin
Dirac - Quantum mechanics
Edison - Electrical engineering
Erwin - Userfriendly character
Faraday
Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
Gray - Music synth
Heron - Automata
Hollerith - Automated punch card systems, his company eventually became IBM
Korolyov - Rocket science
Markov
Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
Moog
Norton - Circuit analysis
Pitts - Neural Networks
Reeves - PCM
Simon - AI
Smith - RF analysis
Stob - Satirist
Tesla
Watt - Steam Engine Bad-Ass

Potential names not from the scheme

Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom
FuzzyWhif
heck-a-tombical plus minus
Micropig/Spiderpig
NPR (No Prescription Required)
Pong/Ping
Cabbage - an alternative / backup / failover for Babbage?

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 * [[Perlman]] new rpi, maybe backdoorbot or enrolement box [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman Perlman]
 * [[Asimov]] small pc used for talking to robots [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov Asimov].
+* [[Denning]] network services machine (was boole) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Denning Denning].
 See [[Laboratory 24/Network]] for details on these machines.
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 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Colin Colin]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray Cray]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Denning Denning]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper Draper]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gill Gill]