Pangea network server

Last revision June 8, 2006

Just as the ancient supercontinent Pangea united all the land masses of the earth in Jurassic times, the server computer pangea.stanford.edu provides common services for the whole Stanford School of Earth Sciences. In order of priority, those services are:

1. Email server and general messages
2. Web server
3. Network file storage and printer sharing
4. Time-sharing computing for class assignments
5. General time-sharing computing for personal learning and unsponsored research

Sponsored research computing is not permitted on pangea.

Account settings such as password and email settings can be made from the pangea account maintenance web server, which is documented on the pangea account management page.

Pangea is a Compaq AlphaServer DS20E computer running the Tru64 Unix operating system, version 4.0G. It has dual 667 Megahertz Alpha 21264 CPUs, two Gigabytes of very high speed RAM memory, and 135 Gigabytes of fully-mirrored user disk space, which is also backed up to tape every night Monday through Friday.

Pangea is a timesharing Unix server. All accounts have full Unix shell functionality. Traditionally, such accounts are used and managed by running typed commands from a command-line login. See the list of Common Unix Commands and Programs on Pangea.

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