On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 11:19, Byron Como wrote: > There is not a Dr. Hamilton listed in the staff (he may be very shy). There > are several Joes' listed thought. Doug Lormand was very helpful and > communicated a good deal of information. > > http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/staff.php > > Linux's contribution to the project is substantial. There is a RedHat 7.2 > machine running in the data acquisition section. It has a gigabyte ethernet > card in it, drivers for which come with 7.2 btw. There were other Linux > machines present doing secondary tasks not related to the actual project, > but there nevertheless. They have a 48 node bewoulf cluster and everything > is connected with lots of fiber optic and cat 5 cable, most of which is wire > rapped and routed neatly through the equipment racks. One interesting note > about the racks, most are taller than the average man and come with a > notice: Do not remove the bottom CPU - the rack will tip over. All the data > acquisition equipment is protected by numerous APC UPS units. These guys > have everything.
They should know better than to let a country boy from "down on de bayou" be the SysAdmin for all this stuff, huh? :-) My job is great sometimes! Shannon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Banker, Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:08 AM > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour > > > > Is Dr. Hamilton involved with this research? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Byron Como [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:45 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour > > > > > > No pictures, although you'd need a telephoto crank attachment to get a > good > > shot of the liquid nitrogen tanks at the end of each leg of the machine, > 4km > > away from the control building. And yes, they have a control room with > lots > > of monitors and wall displays, and remote controls for remote cameras and > > process controls for all sorts of remote switches and measuring devices. > > Quite an ordinary control room actually. Its a real yawner when you have > to > > wait for the seismic wave action in the Gulf of Mexico to subside in order > > to get good readings from the machine. Yes, yes, quite ordinary. The real > > action is in the lecture hall where demonstrations of the technology and > > science are setup. Tesla coils, plasma tubes, spectrum analysis devices > and > > other unidentifiable but no less interesting bits of scientific hardware. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:23 AM > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour > > > > > > > Did anyone take pictures? I couldn't make it. > > > > > > Regards, Dustin > > > > > > At 12:33 AM 6/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > >Shannon, that was great, and thank Ed too. I'll sleep tonight with > dreams > > of > > > >SunFire 880's and terabytes and terabyes of storage space. > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > >From: "Shannon Roddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: <[email protected]> > > > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:04 PM > > > >Subject: Re: [brlug-general] quick report from LIGO tour > > > > > > > > > > > > > Your Welcome! Just sorry it took so long to get it organized! > > > > > > > > > > The other guy was Ed Daw. I am not the best tour guide in the > world. > > I > > > > > also cannot explain much of the physics, so I appreciated him > helping > > > > > out on fairly short notice! > > > > > > > > > > Shannon > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 22:29, John Hebert wrote: > > > > > > First off, a big thank you to Shannon Roddy for > > > > > > organizing and handling the tour. I forgot the > > > > > > scientist's name who also helped with the tour, but > > > > > > please thank him for us, Shannon. > > > > > > > > > > > > The LIGO tour was great. It really is a first-class > > > > > > scientific research operation that is equal to an > > > > > > elite few around the globe that we can only read > > > > > > about. The data acquisition and data storage hardware > > > > > > was extremely cool. Very nice collection of computing > > > > > > power there. I strongly recommend that you take a tour > > > > > > sometime. Check the LIGO website for tour times: > > > > > > http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu . > > > > > > > > > > > > Shannon Roddy will try to organize another tour in the > > > > > > near future, so watch for updates on [email protected] > > > > > > mailing list. > > > > > > > > > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > > > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > > > > > > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > General mailing list > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > -- > > > > > Shannon Roddy > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > > Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory > > > > > ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane > > > > > fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 > > > > > Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy > > > > > Calendar/Schedule See Home Page > > > > > Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > General mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >General mailing list > > > >[email protected] > > > >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > UNIX and Network Consultant > > > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > > > PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net > > > In the beginning the Universe was created. > > > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Shannon Roddy __________________________________________________________________ Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy Calendar/Schedule See Home Page Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
