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NRAO System Admin Meeting: CV Overview

Software


  • Solaris systems:

    • "Dataless" clients mostly; /usr served from sirius
    • Central /opt/local/ also from sirius (= /usr/local on most systems)
    • Common /opt/local/share/ with other architectures
    • Currently almost all Solaris 2.6 (one 2.7 system); going to 2.8 soon.

  • Linux systems:

    • All mostly standalone; kickstart being deployed for upgrades, etc.
    • Central /opt/local/ from sirius (= /usr/local on most systems)
    • Common /opt/local/share/ with other architectures
    • Mostly at Red Hat 6.2; a few 6.1 and 6.0 stragglers
    • Dedicated boxes locked down tight.

  • AIPS:

    • Home of AIPS is on kochab (moving to valen soon)
    • Distributed via "midnight job" to 20+ primary sites (all 4 NRAO sites, plus many external); and at least 12 secondary sites (feeding from primary). Technology: ssh.
    • Public machines (AIPS Caige etc.) offer 100-200 GB user space and 15+ tape drives of many flavors.

  • Web: (see separate discussion/talk)

    • Home of www.nrao.edu, www.cv.nrao.edu, www.aui.edu.
    • New server (Dell PowerEdge) delivered: 90GB hardware Raid-5 hot-swap disk, 256 MB memory, dual processor P-III 600. To be deployed in coming months, to support first two (AUI has its own machine).

   

NRAO System Admin Meeting: CV Overview
Pat Murphy