Computer equipment at the Cyclotron lab

Currently, the data acquisition system at the Oslo Cyclotron Laboratory may be divided into two major components:

• A front-end system responsible for data digitalization, read-out and formatting. This system is based on a VMEbus modular computer with connections to CAMAC and NIM devices.
• A rear-end system consisting of a Sun Sparcstation with a separate hardware interface (from Bit 3 Corporation) to the front-end VMEbus.

Our main computer, lynx.uio.no, is a Sun Sparcstation 10MP-512 with:

• Solaris 2.5.1 operating system (UNIX System V Release 4.0),
  OpenWindows, X-windows, Motif 1.2
• Dual SuperSPARC TMS390Z55 50MHz CPU with 36kB cache, 144 MB memory
• 1 x SCSI mass storage expansion box
• 1 x 1.0 GB disk drive
• 1 x 2.0 GB disk drive
• 1 x 9.0 GB disk drive
• 1 x 18.0 GB disk drive
• 1 x Colour monitor, 19", 1152 x 900 pixels
• 1 x Ethernet controller, TCP/IP and NFS software
• 1 x Bit 3 VME interface
• 2 x 10 GB Exabyte cartridge tape unit
• 1 x Panasonic SCSI CDROM unit
• 1 x SparcPrinter QA-6 laserprinter
• 1 x Hewlett Packard HP890c color inkjet printer

Additionally, we have a second and faster computer, cheetah.uio.no, a Sun UltraSparc 2 Creator, working in close coupling with the above. It is intended for the more CPU- and memory-intensive tasks, and has:

• Solaris 2.7 operating system (UNIX System V Release 4.0),
  OpenWindows, X-windows, Motif 1.2
• Dual UltraSPARC 200MHz CPU, 448 MB memory
• 1 x 2.0 GB disk drive
• 1 x 9.0 GB disk drive
• 1 x 17.0 GB disk drive
• 1 x Colour monitor, 20", 1280 x 1024 pixels
• 1 x Ethernet controller, TCP/IP and NFS software
• 2 x 10 GB Exabyte cartridge tape unit

Our machines share the following X-terminal resources:

• 5 x NCD 19c X-terminals, colour monitor, 19", 1280 x 1024 pixels
• 2 x NCD Xplora Pro X-terminals, colour monitor, 20", 1280 x 1024 pixels
• 2 x Tandberg TDV6330F X-terminal, colour monitor, 17", 1024 x 768 pixels
• 1 x Tandberg TDV6230 X-terminal, monochrome monitor, 17", 1024 x 768 pixels

Physically, the main computer with its additional SCSI devices looks like this .

lynx.uio.no used to run the NCSA httpd WWW server. But currently we are using the Apache httpd. The reason is partly claims of higher speed, partly the enhancements in redirect, access control and status surveillance facilities. Server statistics are available.

We mirror the Apache httpd manual.

Are you fortunate enough to have an account with us? Here is a FAQ for customizing the setup of user preferences, plus some other stuff.

Last update 09-08-2001 by Jon Wikne,