Sun Workstation Network

The seismology group (Jeffrey Barker and Francis Wu) operates its own network of Sun Microsystems Unix workstations. Currently, the network consists of a Sparc10, a Sparc5, a Sparc2, a Sparc1+ and three Sparcstation IPCs, running the Solaris 2.5 operating system. Also on the network are two PCs (a Pentium and a 486). About 30 Gbytes of disk space is distributed and shared across the network, as are two Sun SparcPrinters, an HP Color Laserprinter, three CD-ROM readers, DAT, Exabyte and cartridge tape drives.

The seismology network is connected to other computer facilites on campus through the fiberoptic campus backbone. This also allows access from the department faculty and staff PC network. From campus, the network connects to the internet through the NYSERNET and NFSNET high-speed communications networks. Data are routinely collected from the IRIS Data Management Center in Seattle, Washington, as well as directly from data sources around the world. Remote computation is available on the massively parallel SP2 machine at the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility.

One of the seismology network Sun Sparcstations is acting as server for the web pages you are currently reading. We are running the NCSA httpd webserver program. We use Netscape 3.0 for browsing. Much of the graphics appearing on these pages were generated using GMT mapping software, with image format conversion using ImageMagick and Xv.

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