THE ING NEWSLETTER No. 2, March 2000
GENERAL SCIENCE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION OTHER NEWS FROM ING TELESCOPE TIME
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News from the Computing Facilities Group
Nick Johnson (Head of CFG, ING)
The Computing Facilities Group starts 2000A eagerly anticipating the arrival of its Digital Video Disc (DVD-R) libraries. During 2000A, these 400 disc towers will be integrated into the ING archiving system and increase our on-line storage capacity ten fold. The DVD library will operate in parallel with our CD library and pick up the increased number of images generated by our UltraDAS computers and SDSU controllers. Capacity will be doubled again in 2000B with the addition of a device to flip the DVDs over and allow writing to both sides of the disc giving 9.4GB of data storage per disc.
Computer systems performed without errors through the famous Y2K event. Our detailed planning and testing was apparently thorough, and we are delighted at the results of the hours spent in designing and building new network services. At the same time, we have almost completed the last telescope's conversion to new managed data network cabling. Finally, the ING network has ceased to be a bottleneck to system performance.
During the last days of 1999B we completed migration of all users and applications to a unified Solaris environment. This has altered procedures for visiting astronomers to use our computers with guest accounts. Tighter security management and faster user administration mean we can respond to requests with better efficiency. But we always welcome as much advance notice from visitors as possible. Please complete the form on http://www.ing.iac.es/~cfg/pub_notes/visiting_astronomer_request.htm
to ensure CFG knows all about your IT needs before you arrive here. Thanks for your continued help with this.
Email contact: Nick Johnson (nrj@ing.iac.es)
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