[Isocops] Moving to SwRI

Nathan Schwadron nschwadron at me.com
Thu Jun 17 22:30:44 EDT 2010


The SwRI machines are exact copies of the machines at BU. They are up to the task. 

-N

On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Joe Peterson wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 20:05,  <fair-play at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Roland,
>> We didn't get as far as starting a list - you've made a great start!
>> Some thoughts on your list:
>> 1. Although it's up to Nathan, I think we should get the SwRI machines to
>> the point where they can do full data reduction and also get the web site up
>> and running there.
> 
> I agree.
> 
>> 2. Your questions about the hardware configuration at SwRI are all good.  By
>> the way, I was able to mount one of the RAID partitions so it looks like the
>> RAID is at least present.
> 
> I think it is a good point that we need to asses what the HW is at
> SwRI and if it is on-par with what is at BU, or at least what is
> required to do the job.  Also, the state of the disks needs to be
> determined to make sure there are no unreliabilities.
> 
>> 4. I think your idea of moving off Geoff's account and to some general
>> account for processing is the way to go.
> 
> Absolutely.  For the New Horizons SOC, I have an account called "soc"
> that is used for all official pipeline processing.  My "joe" account
> is used for my testing offline (any user on the machine can have there
> "own pipeline" for testing purposes).
> 
>> 6. We will have to get SwRI to allow access from UNH so the exercise of
>> allowing access from somewhere other than ena will be good practice.
> 
> The SwRI machines will need to be accessible in general, while
> retaining security.  In the Boulder SOC, we keep a "public" machine
> (which is also the data/wiki webserver) on the outside of the
> firewall, whereas the processing machine is inside, but can be ssh'd
> to from the public server.
> 
>> Host names are also mentioned in id-base and id-leops.  In addition, there
>> are a few places where mail is sent to either Geoff or ibexops.  I'm certain
>> Geoff will want to continue to receive mail but we may want to replace the
>> hardcoded mail addresses with an environment variable or two.
>> I'm sure I'll think of more...
> 
> Yes.  Setting up mail accounts that are not connected to a person are
> a good idea, and those aliases can point to whomever should get those
> emails.
> 
> -Joe
> 
> 
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