Astronomy Computing Facilities
The central astronomy servers are astro (a.k.a. chandra), serving mail and the web site, lupus serving NFS volumes, astroplasma serving home directories, and irk serving NFS volumes and Samba.
For general login, please use lupus ((8 cores, 32GB Memory, 4TB scratch disk space). For memory and CPU-intensive tasks, please use beast (16 cores, 64GB memory, 3.5TB scratch disk space). For compiling/running legacy code, you may use the Solaris machine irk.
The Room 501B Computer Lab contains one Sparc workstation and one Linux workstation for general use by Berkeley astronomers and visitors who may not have their own computers, or for anyone wishing to work in a multi-computer lab environment. The lab also contains several of our printers, two CD-RW drives, two Exabyte tape drives, one DLT 8000 tape drive and one DDS-3 tape drive, a PC running Windows 2000 with Office XP and a high quality color scanner, and our library of computer and software manuals. Please don't remove manuals or books from the lab.
There is a DVD RW drive on morph that can be used to read/write DVDs. Disks inserted in the drive should show up in the There is a DVD-ROM drive on grus that can read data DVD-ROMs. It will mount the disk in a similar manner to how it mounts cdroms. Put the disk in the drive, and it will eventually show up as a file system mounted under /cdrom on grus.
There are numerous printers scattered throughout the department, namely p433, p544, p665, and p709 for black and white; color and color2 for color printing; and the massive 3'x4' poster printer.
There are also laptops and a computer video projector which may be borrowed for presentations.
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