Gareth Hunt

Deputy Assistant Director, Data Management

The primary areas of responsibility for Telescope Computing within this group are:

• Intersite computer coordinations
• Standards and policy
• Observatory-wide communications
• NRAO web presence (Pat Murphy)
• Observatory-wide Unix configuration and support (Ruth Milner)
• Observatory-wide PC configuration and support
• Security (Ruth Milner)
• Software and hardware acquisition (Ruth Milner)
• Software and hardware maintenance contracts (Ruth Milner)
• Intersite computing travel (Ruth Milner)
• Computing professional training budget (Ruth Milner)
• Charlottesville Computing Division (Pat Murphy)
• Real-time computer oversight
• Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and other Green Bank systems (Richard Prestage)
• Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) (Brian Glendenning)
• New Mexico Array Support Group
• Very Large Array (VLA)
• Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) operations and VLBA correlator operations
• Expanded VLA (EVLA)

Some recent reports have been submitted for inclusion in the NRAO Quarterly Reports to the National Science Foundation on some of these areas.

My other professional activities include:

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS)
  • Program Committee member 1994-6, 1999-?
  • Local Organizing Committee Member ADASS '96 (ADASS VI) in Charlottesville VA, USA, September 1996.
  • ADASS VI Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VI, 22-25 September 1996, Charlottesville, VA. published in the ASP Conference Series Volume 125, 1997. Gareth Hunt and H.E. Payne editors.
  • Start planning now to attend ADASS '02 (ADASS XII) 13-16 October 2002, Baltimore, MD.
• International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
  • Member of Commission J (Radio Astronomy)

Last updated: 14 July 2002