What's Your Computer's Name

In describing the site (or one of the sites) in my dissertation, one of the things I did was start drawing a map and describing all the artifacts in the lab and their purpose. Among those things are the computers, which all have names so that they can be accessed by others on the network or remotely through the web. Apparently the naming conventions are determined by the profs (who fund the lab). Each one has a different convention. Those include:

prof 1: Famous Australian Cricket Players.

prof 2: Shakespearean characters, particularly those named in a certain play about a Danish Prince. (this prof is from Denmark). This prof has since moved to UCLA where all the computers are named after(could you guess this?) beaches.

prof 3: animals.

prof 4: has Mordred, Morgana, and Nimue, which are all named for Arthurian Legend. (As has been prof 4's custom since the beginning of time.)

prof 5: machines, Malolan and Vaikuntam, are named for Avatars and Celestial Abodes of Vishnu.

And, as always there are some exceptions:

Collective machines are named for relatively obscure science-fiction entities.

Apple Macintosh machines running MacOS X are named for Biblical references to suffering and punishment: Famine, Pestilence and Death,(Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Rev 6:1-8) and Millstone, ("...better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck." Mark 9:42.)