Argonne National Laboratory Public Software Mirror
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General Information

Content is available using the HTTP (via Apache), FTP (via vsftpd), and RSYNC protocols.
Content is refreshed at the times shown in parenthesis. Our timezone is US Central, or GMT -6.

Operating Systems
Kernel.org (/pub/linux)	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/linux/
Kernel.org (/pub/software)	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/software/
Linux Distributions
CentOS	(0,6,12,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/centos/
Debian - Complete	(0)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/debian/
Fedora	(1,7,13,20)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/fedora/
Gentoo	(0,4,8,12,16,20)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/gentoo/
Mandrake - ISOs	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/mandrake/
openSUSE	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/opensuse/
Scientific Linux	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/scientific-linux/
SiCortex	(5)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/sicortex/
SuSE	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/suse/
Ubuntu	(Triggered)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/ubuntu/
Ubuntu - CD and DVD ISOs	(Triggered)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/ubuntu-iso/
Other
Apache	(5)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/apache/
Cygwin	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/cygwin/
GNU FTP Archive	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/gnu/
Mozilla	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/mozilla.org/
MySQL	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/mysql/
OpenOffice.org (/stable, /contrib)	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/openoffice.org/
OpenSSH	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/openssh/
PVFS - Parallel Virtual File System	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/pvfs/
PVFS2 - Parallel Virtual File System v2	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/pvfs2/
RepastSimphony	(5,18)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/repastsimphony/
Samba	(5)	HTTP	FTP	rsync://mirror.anl.gov/samba/

About the Hardware

Our mirror is located at Argonne National Laboratory, which is in the burbs on the outskirts of Chicago, IL, US (view location on Google Maps).

Here's our configuration:

• Ubuntu 64-bit PC (AMD64) server install
• 11 Gbps max bandwidth
• Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 M2
• 2x Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218
• 16G Memory
• 10GbE: Sun 10 GbE with Intel 82598EB Ethernet Controller (IPv4 traffic only)
• 1GbE: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (IPv6 traffic only)
• 2x 4Gb Qlogic fibre channel controllers w/Qlogic's fault tolerant drivers
• 3.5 TB SAN attached disk on a SATABeast
• LVM and XFS so we can grow the filesystems on the fly
• In-house administration software

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