The organisation uses Debian as the first choice distribution on Linux
systems, and they are used in several areas:
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We have about 300 desktop machines, running Debian, for the use of
laboratory staff for mail, web browsing and so on.
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Our 500 node compute cluster consists of Xeon, EM64T and Opteron machines,
some running the i386 and some running the x86_64 ports of Debian. The
cluster is used to run a variety of HPC applications, including the building
of the public Ensembl database of
genome information, medical research jobs, and even some computation fluid
dynamics for the development of in-house robots and so on.
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Debian is also used for many internal infrastructure services; mail, DNS,
NIS, DHCP and so on.
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Many internal data servers are also larger machines running
Debian for running MySQL servers. These are typically Opteron or
Itanium2 machines.
There are three Debian Developers on the Systems team which helps.
