Physics DepartmentComputing

Overview 96’

Ching-Wan YipChing-Wan Yip

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Outline• news• Campus computing environment

– IS servers, network/access– Service Center, Support Center

• Training Resources/ Getting Help• P2000 - Standard load software• Physics facilities - hardware/software• Physics student lab• 124 slides/50 min.• \\acad1\Physics\Pub\yip, http://www.wfu.edu/~yipcw/phy/

P2000 - Access 2000

96’ - notebook

• ThinkPad 365XD– 100 MHz Pentium– PCI 800x60010.4” dual scan LCD– 16M RAM/810M HD– 14.4 Fax/Modem, IBM Ethernet– Sound, microphone, 4x CD-ROM, IrDA

• Desktop– 75MHz 330; 133, 166MMX 350, 300GL, 300XL

• 1/3, ~275 faculty has the 97’

97’ - notebook

• ThinkPad 380D– Pentium-150MHz, L2 cache, 12.1” 64k COLOR 30:1 DSTN

display, 2hr NiMH battery, 1.44 FD, 7.1lb– 32M EDO SO DIMM/1.35M HD, CrystalAudio 16-bit

sound/speaker/microphone, 8x CDROM– EtherJet duplex 20M Ethernet, 33.6 modem PC Cards,

27Mbps Zoomed Port (ZV)– 128bit NeoLogic 1.125M iDRAM video, 4Mbps IrDA– SPECint92 est. 200, twice as fast as old ac G60’s 82

SPECfp 92 est. 140, a bit slower than G60’s 172

Technology news

• Freshman/sophomore free 2030 inkjet printer• IS communications improvements (discuss w/ faculty)• admin - student records, registration web interface• out-reach• library - Dinex? upgrade• STAR, CELI• graduate student TP365 purchase• oversea studies ($500+$1,000 deposit since no tuition)

retired

• Departmental– old wiring, replacing shared 10M Ethernet– 8088/286/386, DOS, WfWg; Mac. Min 16M 486.– replacing 2 SUN workstations, 2 HP LaserJet 2– portable VGA 640x480 LCD projector

• AC - HP g60, g50, e35, News/mail/web server - EIS• ThinkPad 360 - 486, 12M RAM, 340M HD• IBM Wireless network, FDDI backbone

• Convex C1

IS server architecture• Two IBM RS/6000 SP/2 - AIX

– ac, mail, news, IBM/Lotus Domino 4.52, Powered by Notes• IBM RS/6000 F50 - AIX

– Web server• IBM PC servers

– NT network, other servers• Admin HP 3000 959 K class• Library HP 9000 852• Health HP 922

IBM SP/2• Reynolda 3/F

IBM SP/2 Overview

• 14+ nodes (28 processors, ~8 GB RAM) thin/high nodes - PowerPC 604, Power2, P2SC CPUs

• 472+ GB mirrored EMC, IBM SSA storage• 460 max GB EMC tape backup everynight

both UNIX/NT• ac, Mail (POP/SMTP), news, DNS, Domino

(Notes Mail /Template /web interface)• Coming : IBM VideoCharger/Digital Library?

Academic Computer (f1n11)

• interactive login, telnet, pine, elm, tin, LaTeX, GhostView• C, C++, Fortran compilers, SPSS, Maple, SAS, PVM soon?

• file space (webpage) 7.5 Mbyte, ?M mail F/S• if ((student and (class < 2000) ) or (grad. Student))

then 3.75M file/web + 3.75 M for mail space else login + 500Kbyte NT web space if c2000 then use NotesMail (POP diabled?) else Eudora OKend if

WFU AIX servers

Internal 2x2G HDdual home FDDI (ATM for n1)

High Nodes :8 processors 604 SMP 1G RAM

Thin Nodes:Power2 512M RAM n3/n4m 256M n1/n2

CWS : 64M RAM

IBM SP/2 AIX frame 1

f1n4academic/WFU template

f1n6NFS, Samba, DNS

132G partial mirrored IBM SSA Disk array

f1n5Notes Mail MTA

f1n1DNS, news

f1n2Spectrum

f1n7 Domino/NotesMail

f1n3POP3, SMTP, DNS

f1n11 ac

EMC arrays laptop controller212G (424 mirrored) 128G (256 mirrored)50G - ac, 76G Notes, 4G web, admin

New Thin Nodes:Power2SC processors

f2n4test, Notes

f2n6Video/test

f2n5IBM VideoCharger?

f2n1ADSM Adastar ...

f2n2TMR, DB2/Oracle?

f2n3TMR Tivoli ...

IBM SP/2 AIX frame 2

2 SP2 controlworkstations

EMC tape backup14x40GB compress DLT

SUN controller

F50 Web serverdual 604e/256M RAM

Netscape Enterprise Server

80Mbps dual loop SSA

40Mbps SCSIFibre Channel in the future

Windows NT network architecture

• 16+ servers

PC Server 320 PC Server 704PC Server 520/720

Windows NT network

• Basement of Reynolda

Windows NT network Overview• WFU1/CodeSrv1: DHCP - assign IP addresses, WINS, PDC/BDC verify Domain login

(Admin1 etc.)• Printer1&2: 200 pages/semester for student• Public2 : c2000+/stu. orgs web pages: 500K free• WFU3, WFU4: Remedy/SQL, PointCast• Netmeeting, Tivoli : DB2/Oracle• Acad1, CodeSrv1, Lserve, Library1: dept/lab/CBT• Academic, AC, Acfiles (acfiles Oct 1) : fake NTserves, Samba• Psy, English, Language, MBA, Health1, Financial Aid, BGMS, Physical Facilities :

FrontPage, Exchange Mail, ColdFusion, Domino.Broadcast LearningSpace, EMC video streaming ….

• several “known” NT workstations: others will have no access to resources (printer, files)• NT 3.51/4.0 - 5.0 next year

networkinternet

NC RENRaleigh

Load balanced multiple DS-3s, 44.736Mbps each

Sprint

Bell South30 Mbps (5-8%)

BGMS

155Mbps OC-3

WFU

155Mbps OC-3 ATM(622 Mbps OC-12 soon)Shared 10Mbps Ethernet

Switch 10MbpsEthernet

Switch 100MbpsEthernet

100MbpsFDDI

IGN

T1/fractional T1 ~1.544 Mbps

network, access• ATM, FDDI, Ethernet (100, switch 10, share 10), AMP wireless• external to NCREN• modem dial-in

– IGN 56kbp, 50+ modemdirect link to our Cisco2800 routerreal soon now

– WFU ~40 modem pool28.8kbps 4200 rollover14.4kbps 5814 (until ?)

IS Service Center

• IGN - IBM Global Network - IBM Internet Connection (US provider:Advantis)

• $ 12.95/50 hr/month, $17.95 unlimited, $10 activation• 1,000 local access numbers worldwide

(international 28days) 530 in US, 733-5971 for Winston-Salem• $6/hr 1-800 access (Lexington?) Summer only

• underneath Post Office/Poteat, x1949• buy more web page/Notes spaces• ZIP drive rental/loan• true-color, continuous tone, Ricoh printer, $1.49/page

IGN dialer

•56 kbps X2 PPP•news server, email account•no content (e.g. AOL, MSN)•full access to WFU resources•direct link to WFU network soon/done

IGN connected

Problem?Information Systems Support

Center ISSC (Help Desk)• 4272 (Support Consultants /System Status)• on-line problem report - Remedy• mail to ac-help@wfu.edu• except instructional software (e.g. Maple,

Exceed etc.)

• student labs around campus

Remedy

Remedy - login

Remedy - Open

Remedy - Schema

Remedy - File

Ticket Number 16666

IS - web page

IS - news

ACS - news

ACS - web stat

• Not including– www.students.wfu.edu, academic.wfu.edu, email.wfu.edu

YL - howto/technotes

Library web page

Library’s ITC

• Training• Multimedia Lab

– Digital Camera, scanner, video capture

Library - ITC web page

training• CBT• Web resources - library, ISSC• training classes

• ThinkPad Technology Guide• ThinkPad Getting start CD-ROM• students - RTA• grad. stu. - faculty• faculty - ACS

Future OS

Future OS

X98’

5.0

Future Internet

• IE4 + Active Desktop

• Netscape 4 (Communicator) / 5.x (Mercury, Gemini, Compass, Javagator)

Future - others

• ThinkPad 385, 390? 1,000 freshman + 1,000 tech. refresh– 200+ MHz MMX CPU, 64+ MB RAM– 100Mbps Ethernet/56k Modem– internal CardBus, USB, camera– MPEG2, DVD, Dolby AC-3 wavetable– Li battery - smart charger– 14.1” ActiveMatrix TFT display

• Notes 4.6/5.0

• Eudora+PGP encryption+IMAP4, Netscape Mail S/MIME

97’ standard load• Windows 95b (OSR2) - 380, 95a - 365 (C:\drivers)• Office 97 Prof. - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access

PictureEditor, Camcorder, ActiveMovie, NetMeeting• Email/Groupware/PIM - IBM/Lotus Notes 4.51• Netscape Gold 3, MiniSoft telnet,PointCast• ShockWave,Acrobat,QuickTime,RealAudio, IBMVideoCharger• McAfee ViruScan 3, Lotus ScreenCam, EudoraLight 1.5.4• IGN 4.1, Help desk - Remedy, TranXIt InfraRed• library catalog, e-resources, CD-ROM network• WS-FTP, WinZIP, encryption code/decode (unregistered)• Lexmark, Iomega ZIP, AMP wireless driver (no AOL)

PointCast– WFU Channel– Push technology

Microsoft Netmeeting

Lotus Domino/Notes 4.5x

• Groupware• Email

– quota/archive?• Calendar/Scheduling• WFU template

– 5 cabinets automatically– syllabus– course material, discussion, vote & test– web publishing

Notes Mail/Calendar

Notes Mail

Notes Mail web

WFU template

WFU template - Main Menu

WFU template

WFU template

WFU web-enabled template

Web template

Classroom• SVGA+ BARCO projector (up to 1600x1200?)• A/V facility (107 soon)

– VCR, LaserDisc– Canon FlexCamera/overhead camera– audio, wireless mic, laser pointer– DVD soon

• Power and Ethernet to each seat (101 soon)• BACKUP PLAN

– copy to local server, CD, printout– 10 min. early for (unpack, find cable etc.), handout– web, print, mail, directory, video, file servers

Optional– 1.6/3.2G parallel TR3 tape backup– Kodak DC120 1280x960 3x zoom digital camera

– remote mouse/keyboard– digitizing tablet, ZIP drive– PC Card videoconference camera soon– Java, C, C++, VisualBASIC compilers, disk, conversion utilities– multimedia authoring, 2D/3D graphics

Labs. - laser printers

• How many pages printed? 164346 as of 9/10/97

Color printing

• HP 1200/PS color inkjet printer– 20M RAM, 300 dpi

Laser Printers

• 5 Lexmark Optra R/Rn/Lxn/Lx+ laser printers– Postscript Level 2/PCL 5– 4-8M RAM– 8 ppm (1200 dpi) 16 ppm (300 dpi)– Ethernet, accepting jobs from ac, NT/95, AIX, ftp, telnet

UNIX text

• UNIX– hex -0A (LF)

• PC– hex - OD (CR), OA (LF)

• Mac– hex - OD (CR)

This is a UNIX Text files !!!!

It looks like • this • • in Windows NotePad

%~PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0%%Creator: Adobe PS 4.0.1%%Title: TreeKiller.PS%%Creation Date: 1/1/00….….….….……...

%~PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0%%Creator: Adobe PS 4.0.1%%Title: TreeKiller.PS%%Creation Date: 1/1/00….….….….……...

%~PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0%%Creator: Adobe PS 4.0.1%%Title: TreeKiller.PS%%Creation Date: 1/1/00….….….….……...

%~PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0%%Creator: Adobe PS 4.0.1%%Title: TreeKiller.PS%%Creation Date: 1/1/00….….….….……...

This is a UNIXText files!!!!

Print problems• ac

– default unix text lp -dolin305or junk.txt– PostScript lpr -P olin305or -l test.ps– cannot cancel for printing (ac jobs are spooled through NT, no cancel)

• DEC– default binary/PostScript– UNIX text lp -d olin305_text (printer_cr) or mpage

• PowerPC– default binary/PostScript– UNIX text lp -d luna (lp -dolin305unix on enterprise)

• No printing– 95 - Right click on printer icon. If dimmed, uncheck Work- Offline– PowerPC - Click on printer icon, if Out-of-Service, tell yip to restart Q

Research Facility - Advanced Computation Lab.305a

Research Facility - Advanced Computation Lab.305a

Advanced Computation Lab.

Advanced Computation

• 7 DEC Alpha 64-bit Workstations– 5x3000 Model 600/700, 1x250 4/266, 1x500– 175/225/266/500 MHz Alpha 21064(A)/21164 – 128/160/512M RAM– 2/4GB internal/9 GB external storage on each– 10GB Digital Linear Tape Backup, SmartUPS 700– Digital UNIX 4.0b, Fortran, C++ etc.

• Other Workstations– RS/6000 43P 133MHz 604e, 128M RAM, 2G, AIX 4.2.1– SUN SparcStation

Physics Computer Lab• Room 305 Olin

What’s wrong?

Friday night at 11pm, where are the students?

Computer Lab. AIX• 5 PowerSeries850

– PowerPC 604, audio, 4xCDROM, 2M DRAM S3 graphics, 64M RAM, 3G storage, P50/17V monitors

– AIX 4.2.1, IBM Data Explorer 3.1.4, Matlab 5.1.0.421– NAG F90, gcc compiler.– Optional - IBM C, C++, Fortran, OpenGL, PEX

AIX login

AIX CDE• Logout when done• left a paper note if work in progress/run jobs in background• see screen lockout to NO

AIX CDE style

IBM Data Explorer 3.1.4

Matlab 5.1.0.421 + toolboxes

Computer Lab. - PC• 8x133MHz AMD 5x86, 1x166MMX Pentium-17V/VCR• 16/32/48M RAM, 1/2G HD, 1M RAM PCI Cirrus video• 4c scanner/Auto document feeder (please turn off after use)• Broadway 30fps MPEG-1 video capture, AWE64 sound• Ricoh 6x read, 2x write CD-R/CD-RW drive

• 7 ThinkPad for TA (no insurance outside dept. or unlocked)• Different from students’ TP which are insured monthly with

$500/$1000 deductable

Computer Lab. - PC software

• Exceed 5.x.x (6 paid for)• Axum 5.0• Maple V Release 4 Power Edition• Scanner - OmniPage OCR, Corel PhotoPaint 7, Adobe

Acrobat Exchange 3.0 - PDF• CorelDraw 6, JASC PaintShop Pro• Lahey Fortran 90 3.0, Essential Lahey Fortran 3.0• Ulead VideoEditor, SounBlaster SoundEditor• EasyCD Pro 2.1, Adaptec DirectCD

instructional software• Lab - PASCO Science Workshop• Intro - ActivPhysics, InteractivePhysics, Modern

Physics Desktop• Electronics - circuit maker• Astronomy - SkyGlobe 16-bit Windows/DOS etc.• Optics - Zemax• research groups

– IDL, Mathematica, LabView, LaTeX, GhostView/GhostScript (unix/windows), Gplot, emacs/xemacs/vi, wien97, beam3

98-99’?• Natalie principle - more RAM, more HD, faster CPU• 8 more big monitors• Exceed 3D w/OpenGL, DisplayPostScript? Use Windows GSView• Matlab, Mathematica for Windows? Maple, Matlab for DEC, RS/6000, PowerPC?• faster color printer, continuous tone?• Asymmetrix Toolbox (CUPLE, StudioPhysics), Interactive Physics developer, Authorware• Site Manager (link verifier, site mapper), FrontPage, NetObject Fusion• WordPerfect. Equation Editor. Scientific WorkPlace• Visual Fortran 5• Olin browsing problem, NT browse master• RealAudio/Video streaming, NetShow multicast• Cable TV, MPEG2 encoder, full screen 640x480 AVI capture• Adobe Premiere, MGI VideoWave Editor• JavaBean, VRML 3D world builder, VR goggle, LCD projector, AVS

Phy software menu

Software desktop

Computer Usage Policy• WFU Computer Usage Policy - Valid id, break in etc.

• Food (on the floor only)• don’t touch the screens• Copyright• Copying software/CD (except Lotus Notes, install

anywhere you want) Won’t copy full CD/audio CD• DO NOT install ANY software or change the settings

(shareware, freeware, betaware, silverware, vaporware etc.)

Backup, Backup, Backup

• no guarantee on data in c:\userdata, /homes/phystud• no backup will be make• will be purged occasionally• use username for folder to store data, c:\userdata\yipcw

C:\userdata

NT Domain login

•sync time•updates

•server names•Virus/word/Notes•passwd/install menu

•Login to WFU•\\academic, \\printer1 etc.

NT login script

Setup.exe (e

ven uninstalle

d)DDEML.DLL error

License Agreement

License Agreement

95 - Display Properties• 640x480/800x600 16-bit/256 colors

Display Control Panel

IS - computer assistance

Computer Based Training CBT

Library Resources

Netscape

Physics Home Page

Netscape Mail

Email

• Netscape Mail/Messenger (create profile to H:\somewhere\ first)

• Eudora Light (save to H:\email\)• pine

Email - Netscape profile manager (NT start menu)

Email - Netscape create profile

• H:\somewhere

Email - Eudora 1.5.4

Email - Eudora 3.x

telnet

Email - pine

My Computer

My computer (need new)

Map Network Drive

H:\\acSomthing\homesL:\\acSomething\PCNFSP:\\Acad1\Physics

Network Drive

\\academic\homes

Network Neighborhood

Entire network

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Excel

Key access

Keyacc - login

Keyacc - login - successful

Axum 5.0

Hummingbird Exceed 5

X to ac login

X to ac

• Exceed 6 w/ X11R6.3 (Broadway)

X/Maple on ac

Maple

Maple

Logoff

logoff

The End

Cast

Presentation: PowerPoint 97sp1

Image Editing: Adobe PhotoShop 4.01

Image Capture: Microsoft PhotoEditor 97

Internet Browser: Netscape Communicator 4.0.3

Operation Systems: Windows 95b, NT 4.0sp3

Computer Systems: IBM ThinkPad 380D, 300XL

Input Systems: IBM keyboard, Microsoft Intelligent Mouse, Wacom ArtZ II tablet

Copyright

© 1997 Ching-Wan Yip

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