- Did some more configuration on the new LAT terminal server in order to
add a dialout capability.
- Defragmented the warm disks on Lander and the hot disk on Cajon.
- Assisted Dave Wald with using the big HP plotter to produce some
large-format graphics.
- Found out that we can get an Alpha workstation from Caltech when the
person who is using it goes away next month. Got quotes from DEC for the
software licenses that we will need to convert it to run VMS in our cluster.
- Fixed the rcp scripts to enable Terra10 to copy event information to and
from Bigone and Tejon.
- Began seriously writing a program to get data for Anza events from
Scripps over the Internet.
- Got the Anza data receiver program working and was able to receive real
event data sent over the Internet.
- Cajon crashed on Tuesday. After the crash, the machine would not perform
power-up self-tests, so a hardware service call was logged with DEC.
- While calling DEC to find out the status of our service call, we learned
that '24 hour response time' actually means *24 working hours*, or three
days. After talking to DEC, they moved our call priority up.
- DEC came out on Wednesday and initially traced the fault to the serial IO
controller card. After this, we were able to boot the machine again, but
it crashed again the next day. A second service call was logged. DEC
service came out again, but was not able to isolate the fault.
- Continued to receive Anza event data, which is being stored until such
time that we can reformat it for analysis.
- DEC service came out on Monday and was finally able to isolate the fault
in Cajon to a heat-sensitive failure in the graphics controller card.
They replaced the card, and Cajon came back up reliably.
- The remainder of December was spent on furlough.
- Fixed the data transfer between Terra10 and the cluster.
- Started receiving data on Anza events over the Internet.
- Worked with DEC field service to resolve the hardware problem on Cajon.