Involved people at OAB: Delpino, Di Luca, Gatti, Lolli, Madama, Merighi,
Montegriffo, Policastro.
During 2001 the hardware update of the computer center was continued. Old Alpha workstations were replaced with newer ones or with PCs running Linux OS. Several high performance PCs, equipped with AMD Athlon XP 1800+ and 1GBy RAM have been installed, working typically as personal computer facility for large data reduction programs. For this purpose, these machines were also equipped with DAT and CD-RW units, for data backup.
A new Compaq DS20, with 4 Gby of memory and 18+70 GB of disk, has been added to the numerical computing group. A RAIDTEC network file server with 240 GBy in RAID 5 has been installed as a store and backup facility. This unit works as a file server for software distribution and data storage for both system and personal users.
The number of PCs used as Unix-Linux workstations increased during 2001 reaching the number of about 100 units, plus several PCs running Win98. Most of them have been updated with CD-RW and SCSI DAT tapes.