gbtnews #9 14 March 2002 ============= To: GBT Observers, NRAO Scientific Staff From: Richard Prestage, NRAO Green Bank Re: Green Bank linux server available for GBT data reduction and to NRAO scientific staff In anticipation of the high data-rate available from the Green Bank Telescope, we have recently purchased a multi-processor linux server (details below). The specific intent of this machine is to allow processing of large GBT data sets (pulsar observations or large on-the-fly maps for example) which cannot easily be handled with a standard workstation. Once the GBT is fully scheduled, we anticipate this machine will be assigned to observers in a manner similar to the computing facilities at the AOC in Socorro. In the meantime, we propose to make spare capacity available on a more ad hoc basis; to both GBT observers with large GBT data-sets, and to members of the scientific staff from any NRAO site. If you would like to make use of this machine, please send me a short email detailing anticipated usage (disk and cpu) and preferred timescale. I will then agree arrangements on a case by case basis. Note that our off-site network bandwidth is very limited; data transfer will most likely have to be via tape. If demand becomes too large, we will simply move to a more formal booking scheme sooner rather than later. Machine details: Dell PowerEdge 8450 with eight 700MHz processors (2Mb cache); 8Gb RAM (max 3Gb per process); 600GB raid array; DDS-4, DLT 7000 and LTO tape drives; RedHat 7.2 O/S. Richard Prestage (rprestag@nrao.edu) _______________________________________________ Gbtnews mailing list Gbtnews@listmgr.cv.nrao.edu http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/gbtnews