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-- ------------------------------------------------------------------Flemming Videbaek Physics department, Brookhaven national laboratory Upton L.I., NY11973, USA
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RCF users,
We are officially announcing a major step in improving the General Computing Environment (GCE). The GCE will now consist of "general interactive" and "development" machines. The "general interactive" machine is called "rcf.rhic.bnl.gov"; we decided that as a non-development machine, it should be named for its service, rather than its architecture or operating system. This machine is now available for use by everyone with accounts on the RCF machines. We would like everyone to start using it and let us know if there are any problems, etc.
Although its name gives no hint to its nature, rcf.rhic.bnl.gov is a SUN E450, running Solaris 2.6. It has four Ultra Sparc 250 mHz processors, 1.28 gigabytes of memory, and plenty of swap and /var space. The system is intended to be the machine for everyday things like reading email and using such things as LaTeX and Netscape. In the near future, rcf.rhic.bnl.gov will also be the place where mail to "mail.rhic.bnl.gov" will go. We would like everyone to use it as his/her email site. By concentrating these activities onto a single OS, we feel that we will be able to provide better and more timely support.
The current list of "development" machines is as follows:
1. LINUX: rlnx01 and rlnx03. The "rlnx03" machine is on loan from CCD until the next batch of machines arrives. It is a pretty powerful machine and we would like more people to start using it.
2. Solaris on Pentium: rpro00 and rpro01.
3. Silicon Graphics IRIX: rsgi05.
4. IBM AIX: ribm00 and ribm01.
Here's a projected schedule of upcoming events:
* May 7, 1998: rcf.rhic.bnl.gov is now available for user logins.
* Sunday, May 17, 1998: mail services will be migrated from all the development machines and rsgi0[0-2] to rcf.rhic.bnl.gov, which will then accept mail destined for the other machines.
* Monday, June 1, 1998: logins to the old SGIs (rsgi00, rsgi01, rsgi02) will be disabled.
* The older SGIs (rsgi00 and 02) will be retired soon after this and rsgi01 will serve only as the Web server, "www.rhic.bnl.gov".
If you have problems, questions, comments, or suggestions relating to these changes and events or anything else relating to the RCF, please visit the Web page at http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/html/home.html
Then click on "please submit a Problem/Suggestion Ticket." You can also go directly to the Problem/Suggestion Ticket GUI at
http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/html/cts_rcfusers.html
Please pass this note on to all the members of your collaboration. There are only a little over a hundred mambers of rhic-rcf-l (formerly rdguc-l) and about 900 entries in the password data base.
Morris Strongson, X4192, mms@bnl.gov.
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