Computer Systems

Servers

Three computers running Linux (Red Hat) operating systems function as the ships main servers. They are ‘atlantic’, ‘pacific’ and ‘indian’. Indian is the only computer accessible to the crew and scientists. It functions as the ship’s anonymous ftp site, domain name server, DHCP server, web server, print server and mail server. Atlantic is the main file server for all the ships data acquisition systems, NTP (network time) server. Pacific is primarily used for data processing and to backup all the other linux servers.

Data Acquisition

Atlantic is used to collect and process Hydrosweep data and EM300 data. Several PC’s are used to collect ADCP, DAS/IMET, Navigation, CTD, Winch and Bathymetric data. Most all of the data can be viewed on the ship’s Web site, and DAS data can be viewed in near real time.

PC’s & Mac’s

There are PC’s and Macintosh’s located in the Library, Science office and Main lab that are available for everyone’s use. The computers in the Computer lab are not available for general use because they all perform specific functions. The Macintosh’s all run Mac-OS-10 and the PC’s are running Windows XP operating systems.

There is Public disk space on Indian. Be advised that Public means that anyone can view, modify or delete any file on the Public disk. If you have files that you want to protect, store them in your home directory on Indian.

Network connections

The ship has a fiber optic Ethernet network with drops in all labs and staterooms. The Ethernet connections in the ships laboratories are all 10baseTX (10/100). Due to lack of fiber optic interface hardware, computer network connections in the staterooms are not supported.

Most computers can obtain an IP address from the DHCP server (Indian), however if a static IP address is needed ask the Marine Technician to assign one for your computer.

When the ship is at the University of Washington dock the network is connected to the outside internet via our gateway.