Astronomy Computing Facilities
The central astronomy servers are astro (a.k.a. chandra), serving mail and the web site, and irk serving NFS and Samba. astron is the NIS+ server and should not be used for general login.
For general login, please use meso. For memory and CPU-intensive tasks, please use lupus. First year graduate students may also wish to login to pharlap.
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, one CD-RW drive, 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 now a DVD-ROM drive on grus. It is only for reading 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, color2 and photo 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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