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The bandwidth of the hardware outfit of the used PCs may be seen from Table 1.
As operating system Windows XP-SP2 Professional for servers and clients
is used. If a system has to be rebooted or if it does it automatically after a
power failure, then most of the time no user interference is required in order
to bring the system up again. This is important for the unattended servers,
which have no video monitor and no keyboard. Login is avoided by the enabled Autologon
feature. The need for rebooting is relatively rare (less than once per 2 weeks).
The standard software outfit of the area client PCs can be seen from table 2.
On all server PCs the CAMAC server, the CORBA server, the pcAnywhere
client-server connectivity program by
Symantec (in host mode), the VNCserver
(Virtual Network Computing founded by
AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, allows logon from Netscape via a Java applet), a Watchdog
(observing the Camac server) and McAfee VShield are started up automatically at the end
of each boot procedure.
Table 1: Hardware configuration of used Noname PCs
| Mother Board | Shuttle AV42 for clients or Asus P4PE-X for servers. Cases for servers are of 19" rack mountable type. |
| CPU | Intel Celeron 2.0 GHz for servers or Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz (5) & 2.0 GHz (2) for clients. |
| RAM | 512 MB (servers & clients) |
| Hard disk | EIDE, 8 GB (client PCs), 40 GB (server PCs), FAT32 file system |
| DVD/CD drive | EIDE, client PCs only, installed in January 2006 |
| Ethernet adapter | on-board ASUSTek/Broadcom 440x for servers or 3Com 3C905CX-TX-M (PCI) for clients |
| Graphic adapter | MGA Matrox Millennium G200 AGP with 8 MB video memory (clients) or MGA Matrox Millennium 2 (PCI) with 4 MB video memory (servers) |
| Monitor | Acer AL1715 17" TFT-LCD monitors (client PCs only) |
| Keyboard | US ASCII (client PCs only) |
| Mouse | PS/2 (clients + servers) |
| COM2: port | Serial connection to CAMAC interface (server PCs only) |
Table 2: Standard software outfit of area PCs
| Program | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Optima et al. | Beam line programs |
| Netscape 4.7 or higher and MS Internet Explorer 6.0 | WWW and mail client access |
| Atomic Clock Sync | automatic time adjustment |
| McAfee VShield | Virus protection and scanning |
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Last updated by
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