Latest News & Progress

• News

  1 PhD Scholarship
  
  2 More Sun Fire x4540s Online!
  GDC-SDO purchased 2 additional Sun Fire servers. These new x4540 models still pack 48TB of high-density storage, as well as now delivering 8 cores of AMD Opteron processing power. This gives the GDC-SDO a combined total of 192TB storage.
  
  HP Preprocessor Online!
  GDC-SDO purchased a HP Preprocessing machine. This new machine comes equipt with 8 quad-core CPUs and 256GB memory.

• Completed

  Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) fully operational. RPCs are vital to establish communication between the SUMS & PSQL servers and the DRMS.
  
  GDC-SDO poster delivered at the SDO science teams meeting in the Napa Valley, USA
  28-29.03.2008
  
  ALL SOHO/MDI data has been copied from JSOC to tape and is now at the GDC-SDO
  31.03.2008
  
  12x S-AIT 1 Tapes were ordered
  21.02.2008
  
  Ongoing testing and debugging of the DRMS software.
  
  Trip to SDO meeting. Delivered GDC-SDO poster in Napa, USA
  R Burston 28-29.03.2008
  
  Trip to PEGASUS group in LA, USA
  R Burston 26-27.03.2008
  
  Sun Fire x4500 Servers arrived
  20.02.2008
  
  DRMS built on Machine II
  30.10.2007
  
  Trip to MSSL
  R Burston 5-10.12.2007
  
  Trips to JSOC
  R Burston 14-22.10.2007
  L Gizon    02-08.12.2007
  
  Testing and Debugging DRMS/SUMS servers commenced 5.10.2007
  
  DRMS server running
  4.10.2007
  
  SUMS server running
  4.10.2007
  
  DRMS software built
  25.08.2007
  
  SUMS software built
  25.08.2007
  
  PostgreSQL built
  24.08.2007