MCDONALD OBSERVATORY / DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY COMPUTING

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Primary Facilities in Austin
Common multi-user workstations and resources:
  1. astro - Sunfire v490, Solaris 10. Four 1.8GHz CPUs with a total of 16 GB of memory. Console accessible in RLM 16.304. It serves as the main departmental mail server and provides data reduction services for users without adequate access to private workstations. It also hosts a variety of tape drives (listed in detail below), all of which are available for user archiving and data restoration. Disk space usage is governed by a quota system and the scratch areas (/scratch/astro/d[1-5]) are purged weekly of files that have not changed in two months. Suitable applications for astro include code development, data reduction and number crunching, document preparation, electronic mail, and printing.

  2. ceres - Sunblade 100. Solaris 10. RLM 16.304. This system offers access to a Solaris desktop environment as well as a 9 GB local disk (/data1/ceres) governed by a 1-month purging scheme. Login usernames and passwords are frequently synchronized to those on astro.

  3. vesta - Sunblade 100. Solaris 10. RLM 16.304. This system offers access to a Solaris desktop environment as well as a 9 GB local disk (/data1/vesta) governed by a 1-month purging scheme. Login usernames and passwords are frequently synchronized to those on astro.

  4. Public PC and Macintosh Workstations - RLM 16.304. This is a work in progress. When complete, the lab will contain 4 iMacs, 2 Windows PCs and 2 Linux boxes. Available software applications include Microsoft Office, Mozilla, a secure shell client, Adobe Acrobat, ghostview. Two machines contain a supplemental configuration which includes a Canon Canoscan LiDE 90 color scanner, OCR software, and Photoshop.
    These machines are for astronomy department users and applications only. Do not install personal applications software on these systems.






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