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Ching-Wan Yip

Outline
• news
• Campus computing environment
– IS servers, network/access
– Service Center, Support Center
• Training Resources/ Getting Help
• P2000 - Standard load software
• Physics facilities - hardware/software
• Physics student lab
• 124 slides/50 min.
• \\acad1\Physics\Pub\yip, http://www.wfu.edu/~yipcw/phy/

P2000 - Access 2000

96’ - notebook
• ThinkPad 365XD
– 100 MHz Pentium
– PCI 800x60010.4” dual scan LCD
– 16M RAM/810M HD
– 14.4 Fax/Modem, IBM Ethernet
– Sound, microphone, 4x CD-ROM, IrDA
• Desktop
– 75MHz 330; 133, 166MMX 350, 300GL, 300XL
• 1/3, ~275 faculty has the 97’

97’ - notebook
• ThinkPad 380D
– Pentium-150MHz, L2 cache, 12.1” 64k COLOR 30:1 DSTN display, 2hr NiMH battery, 1.44 FD, 7.1lb
– 32M EDO SO DIMM/1.35M HD, CrystalAudio 16-bit sound/speaker/microphone, 8x CDROM
– EtherJet duplex 20M Ethernet, 33.6 modem PC Cards,
27Mbps Zoomed Port (ZV)
– 128bit NeoLogic 1.125M iDRAM video, 4Mbps IrDA
– SPECint92 est. 200, twice as fast as old ac G60’s 82
SPECfp 92 est. 140, a bit slower than G60’s 172

Technology news
• Freshman/sophomore free 2030 inkjet printer
• IS communications improvements (discuss w/ faculty)
• admin - student records, registration web interface
• out-reach
• library - Dinex? upgrade
• STAR, CELI
• graduate student TP365 purchase
• oversea studies ($500+$1,000 deposit since no tuition)

retired
• Convex C1
• Departmental
– old wiring, replacing shared 10M Ethernet
– 8088/286/386, DOS, WfWg; Mac. Min 16M 486.
– replacing 2 SUN workstations, 2 HP LaserJet 2
– portable VGA 640x480 LCD projector
• AC - HP g60, g50, e35, News/mail/web server - EIS
• ThinkPad 360 - 486, 12M RAM, 340M HD
• IBM Wireless network, FDDI backbone

• Two IBM RS/6000 SP/2 - AIX
– ac, mail, news, IBM/Lotus Domino 4.52, Powered by Notes
• IBM RS/6000 F50 - AIX
– Web server
• IBM PC servers
– NT network, other servers
• Admin HP 3000 959 K class
• Library HP 9000 852
• Health HP 922

• Reynolda 3/F

• 14+ nodes (28 processors, ~8 GB RAM) thin/high nodes
- PowerPC 604, Power2, P2SC CPUs
• 472+ GB mirrored EMC, IBM SSA storage
• 460 max GB EMC tape backup everynight both UNIX/NT
• ac, Mail (POP/SMTP), news, DNS, Domino
(Notes Mail /Template /web interface)
• Coming : IBM VideoCharger/Digital Library?

• interactive login, telnet, pine, elm, tin, LaTeX, GhostView
• C, C++, Fortran compilers, SPSS, Maple, SAS, PVM soon?
• file space (webpage) 7.5 Mbyte, ?M mail F/S
• if ((student and (class < 2000) ) or (grad. Student)) then
3.75M file/web + 3.75 M for mail space else login + 500Kbyte NT web space if c2000 then use NotesMail (POP diabled?) else Eudora OK end if

WFU AIX servers
F50 Web server dual 604e/256M RAM
Netscape Enterprise Server
2 SP2 control workstations
EMC arrays laptop controller
212G (424 mirrored) 128G (256 mirrored)
50G - ac, 76G Notes, 4G web, admin
Internal 2x2G HD dual home FDDI (ATM for n1)
High Nodes :
8 processors 604 SMP 1G RAM
Thin Nodes:
Power2 512M RAM n3/n4m 256M n1/n2
CWS : 64M RAM f1n11 ac
EMC tape backup
14x40GB compress DLT
SUN controller
New Thin Nodes:
Power2SC processors f1n7 Domino/NotesMail f1n5
Notes Mail MTA f1n3
POP3, SMTP, DNS f1n1
DNS, news f1n6
NFS, Samba, DNS f1n4 academic/WFU template f1n2
Spectrum
40Mbps SCSI
Fibre Channel in the future
80Mbps dual loop SSA f2n5
IBM VideoCharger?
f2n3
TMR Tivoli ...
f2n1
ADSM Adastar ...
f2n6
Video/test f2n4 test, Notes f2n2
TMR, DB2/Oracle?
IBM SP/2 AIX frame 1 132G partial mirrored IBM SSA Disk array IBM SP/2 AIX frame 2

Windows NT network architecture
• 16+ servers
PC Server 320 PC Server 520/720 PC Server 704

Windows NT network
• Basement of Reynolda

Windows NT network Overview
• WFU1/CodeSrv1: DHCP - assign IP addresses, WINS, PDC/BDC verify
Domain login (Admin1 etc.)
• Printer1&2: 200 pages/semester for student
• Public2 : c2000+/stu. orgs web pages: 500K free
• WFU3, WFU4: Remedy/SQL, PointCast
• Netmeeting, Tivoli : DB2/Oracle
• Acad1, CodeSrv1, Lserve, Library1: dept/lab/CBT
• Academic, AC, Acfiles (acfiles Oct 1) : fake NTserves, Samba
• Psy, English, Language, MBA, Health1, Financial Aid, BGMS, Physical
Facilities : FrontPage, Exchange Mail, ColdFusion, Domino.Broadcast
LearningSpace, EMC video streaming ….
• several “known” NT workstations: others will have no access to resources (printer, files)
• NT 3.51/4.0 - 5.0 next year

internet
IGN network
Sprint
Load balanced multiple
DS-3s, 44.736Mbps each
T1/fractional T1 ~1.544 Mbps
100Mbps
FDDI
Switch 100Mbps
Ethernet
Switch 10Mbps
Ethernet
Shared 10Mbps Ethernet
WFU
155Mbps OC-3 ATM
(622 Mbps OC-12 soon)
155Mbps OC-3
NC REN
Raleigh
Bell South
30 Mbps (5-8%)
BGMS

network, access
• ATM, FDDI, Ethernet (100, switch 10, share 10), AMP wireless
• external to NCREN
• modem dial-in
– IGN 56kbp, 50+ modem direct link to our Cisco2800 router real soon now
– WFU ~40 modem pool
28.8kbps 4200 rollover
14.4kbps 5814 (until ?)

IS Service Center
• underneath Post Office/Poteat, x1949
• buy more web page/Notes spaces
• ZIP drive rental/loan
• true-color, continuous tone, Ricoh printer, $1.49/page
• IGN - IBM Global Network - IBM Internet Connection
(US provider:Advantis)
• $ 12.95/50 hr/month, $17.95 unlimited, $10 activation
• 1,000 local access numbers worldwide
(international 28days) 530 in US, 733-5971 for Winston-Salem
• $6/hr 1-800 access (Lexington?) Summer only

IGN dialer

IGN connected
•56 kbps X2 PPP
•news server, email account
•no content (e.g. AOL, MSN)
•full access to WFU resources
•direct link to WFU network soon/done

Problem?
Information Systems Support
Center ISSC (Help Desk)

Remedy

Remedy - login

Remedy - Open

Remedy - Schema

Remedy - File
Ticket Number 16666

IS - web page

IS - news

ACS - news

ACS - web stat
• Not including
– www.students.wfu.edu, academic.wfu.edu, email.wfu.edu

YL - howto/technotes

Library web page

Library’s ITC
• Training
• Multimedia Lab
– Digital Camera, scanner, video capture

Library - ITC web page

training
• CBT
• Web resources - library, ISSC
• training classes
• ThinkPad Technology Guide
• ThinkPad Getting start CD-ROM
• students - RTA
• grad. stu. - faculty
• faculty - ACS

Future OS

X
Future OS

Future Internet
• Netscape 4 (Communicator) / 5.x
(Mercury, Gemini, Compass, Javagator)
• IE4 + Active Desktop

• Notes 4.6/5.0
Future - others
• Eudora+PGP encryption+IMAP4, Netscape
Mail S/MIME
• ThinkPad 385, 390?
1,000 freshman + 1,000 tech. refresh
– 200+ MHz MMX CPU, 64+ MB RAM
– 100Mbps Ethernet/56k Modem
– internal CardBus, USB, camera
– MPEG2, DVD, Dolby AC-3 wavetable
– Li battery - smart charger
– 14.1” ActiveMatrix TFT display

97’ standard load
• Windows 95b (OSR2) - 380, 95a - 365 (C:\drivers)
• Office 97 Prof. - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
PictureEditor, Camcorder, ActiveMovie, NetMeeting
• Email/Groupware/PIM - IBM/Lotus Notes 4.51
• Netscape Gold 3, MiniSoft telnet,PointCast
• ShockWave,Acrobat,QuickTime,RealAudio, IBMVideoCharger
• McAfee ViruScan 3, Lotus ScreenCam, EudoraLight 1.5.4
• IGN 4.1, Help desk - Remedy, TranXIt InfraRed
• library catalog, e-resources, CD-ROM network
• WS-FTP, WinZIP, encryption code/decode (unregistered)
• Lexmark, Iomega ZIP, AMP wireless driver (no AOL)

PointCast
– WFU Channel
– Push technology

Microsoft Netmeeting

Lotus Domino/Notes 4.5x
• Groupware
• Email
– quota/archive?
• Calendar/Scheduling
• WFU template
– 5 cabinets automatically
– syllabus
– course material, discussion, vote & test
– web publishing

Notes Mail/Calendar

Notes Mail

Notes Mail web

WFU template

WFU template - Main Menu

WFU template

WFU template

WFU web-enabled template

Web template

Classroom
• SVGA+ BARCO projector (up to 1600x1200?)
• A/V facility (107 soon)
– VCR, LaserDisc
– Canon FlexCamera/overhead camera
– audio, wireless mic, laser pointer
– DVD soon
• Power and Ethernet to each seat (101 soon)
• BACKUP PLAN
– copy to local server, CD, printout
– 10 min. early for (unpack, find cable etc.), handout
– web, print, mail, directory, video, file servers

Optional
– 1.6/3.2G parallel TR3 tape backup
– Kodak DC120 1280x960 3x zoom digital camera
– remote mouse/keyboard
– digitizing tablet, ZIP drive
– PC Card videoconference camera soon
– Java, C, C++, VisualBASIC compilers, disk, conversion utilities
– multimedia authoring, 2D/3D graphics

Labs. - laser printers
• How many pages printed? 164346 as of 9/10/97

Color printing
• HP 1200/PS color inkjet printer
– 20M RAM, 300 dpi

Laser Printers
• 5 Lexmark Optra R/Rn/Lxn/Lx+ laser printers
– Postscript Level 2/PCL 5
– 4-8M RAM
– 8 ppm (1200 dpi) 16 ppm (300 dpi)
– Ethernet, accepting jobs from ac, NT/95, AIX, ftp, telnet

UNIX text
This is a UNIX
Text files
!!!!
This is a UNIX
Text files
!!!!
• UNIX
– hex -0A (LF)
• PC
– hex - OD (CR), OA (LF)
• Mac
– hex - OD (CR)
It looks like • this • • in Windows NotePad
%~PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%~PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
….
%%Creation Date: 1/1/00
….
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...
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%%Creation Date: 1/1/00
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Print problems
• ac
– default unix text lp -dolin305or junk.txt
– PostScript lpr -P olin305or -l test.ps
– cannot cancel for printing (ac jobs are spooled through NT, no cancel)
• DEC
– default binary/PostScript
– UNIX text lp -d olin305_text (printer_cr) or mpage
• PowerPC
– default binary/PostScript
– UNIX text lp -d luna (lp -dolin305unix on enterprise)
• No printing
– 95 - Right click on printer icon. If dimmed, uncheck Work- Offline
– PowerPC - Click on printer icon, if Out-of-Service, tell yip to restart Q

Research Facility -
Advanced
Computation Lab.
305a

Research Facility -
Advanced
Computation Lab.
305a

Advanced Computation Lab.

Advanced Computation
• 7 DEC Alpha 64-bit Workstations
– 5x3000 Model 600/700, 1x250 4/266, 1x500
– 175/225/266/500 MHz Alpha 21064(A)/21164
– 128/160/512M RAM
– 2/4GB internal/9 GB external storage on each
– 10GB Digital Linear Tape Backup, SmartUPS 700
– Digital UNIX 4.0b, Fortran, C++ etc.
• Other Workstations
– RS/6000 43P 133MHz 604e, 128M RAM, 2G, AIX 4.2.1
– SUN SparcStation

Physics Computer Lab
• Room 305 Olin
What’s wrong?
Friday night at 11pm, where are the students?

Computer Lab. AIX
• 5 PowerSeries850
– PowerPC 604, audio, 4xCDROM, 2M DRAM S3 graphics, 64M RAM, 3G storage, P50/17V monitors
– AIX 4.2.1, IBM Data Explorer 3.1.4, Matlab 5.1.0.421
– NAG F90, gcc compiler.
– Optional - IBM C, C++, Fortran, OpenGL, PEX

AIX login

AIX CDE
• Logout when done
• left a paper note if work in progress/run jobs in background
• see screen lockout to NO

AIX CDE style

IBM Data Explorer 3.1.4

Matlab 5.1.0.421 + toolboxes

Computer Lab. - PC
• 8x133MHz AMD 5x86, 1x166MMX Pentium-17V/VCR
• 16/32/48M RAM, 1/2G HD, 1M RAM PCI Cirrus video
• 4c scanner/Auto document feeder (please turn off after use)
• Broadway 30fps MPEG-1 video capture, AWE64 sound
• Ricoh 6x read, 2x write CD-R/CD-RW drive
• 7 ThinkPad for TA (no insurance outside dept. or unlocked)
• Different from students’ TP which are insured monthly with
$500/$1000 deductable

Computer Lab. - PC software
• Exceed 5.x.x (6 paid for)
• Axum 5.0
• Maple V Release 4 Power Edition
• Scanner - OmniPage OCR, Corel PhotoPaint 7, Adobe
Acrobat Exchange 3.0 - PDF
• CorelDraw 6, JASC PaintShop Pro
• Lahey Fortran 90 3.0, Essential Lahey Fortran 3.0
• Ulead VideoEditor, SounBlaster SoundEditor
• EasyCD Pro 2.1, Adaptec DirectCD

instructional software
• Lab - PASCO Science Workshop
• Intro - ActivPhysics, InteractivePhysics, Modern
Physics Desktop
• Electronics - circuit maker
• Astronomy - SkyGlobe 16-bit Windows/DOS etc.
• Optics - Zemax
• research groups
– IDL, Mathematica, LabView, LaTeX,
GhostView/GhostScript (unix/windows), Gplot, emacs/xemacs/vi, wien97, beam3

98-99’?
• Natalie principle - more RAM, more HD, faster CPU
• 8 more big monitors
• Exceed 3D w/OpenGL, DisplayPostScript? Use Windows GSView
• Matlab, Mathematica for Windows? Maple, Matlab for DEC, RS/6000, PowerPC?
• faster color printer, continuous tone?
• Asymmetrix Toolbox (CUPLE, StudioPhysics), Interactive Physics developer, Authorware
• Site Manager (link verifier, site mapper), FrontPage, NetObject Fusion
• WordPerfect. Equation Editor. Scientific WorkPlace
• Visual Fortran 5
• Olin browsing problem, NT browse master
• RealAudio/Video streaming, NetShow multicast
• Cable TV, MPEG2 encoder, full screen 640x480 AVI capture
• Adobe Premiere, MGI VideoWave Editor
• JavaBean, VRML 3D world builder, VR goggle, LCD projector, AVS

Phy software menu

Software desktop

Computer Usage Policy
• WFU Computer Usage Policy - Valid id, break in etc.
• Food (on the floor only)
• don’t touch the screens
• Copyright
• Copying software/CD (except Lotus Notes, install anywhere you want) Won’t copy full CD/audio CD
• DO NOT install ANY software or change the settings
(shareware, freeware, betaware, silverware, vaporware etc.)

Backup, Backup, Backup
• no guarantee on data in c:\userdata, /homes/phystud
• no backup will be make
• will be purged occasionally
• use username for folder to store data, c:\userdata\yipcw

C:\userdata

NT Domain login

NT login script
•sync time
•updates
•server names
•Virus/word/Notes
•passwd/install menu
•Login to WFU
•\\academic, \\printer1 etc.

DDEML.DLL error

License Agreement

License Agreement

95 - Display Properties
• 640x480/800x600 16-bit/256 colors

Display Control Panel

IS - computer assistance

Computer Based Training CBT

Library Resources

Netscape

Physics Home Page

Netscape Mail

Email
• Netscape Mail/Messenger (create profile to
H:\somewhere\ first)
• Eudora Light (save to H:\email\)
• pine

Email - Netscape profile manager
(NT start menu)

Email - Netscape create profile
• H:\somewhere

Email - Eudora 1.5.4

Email - Eudora 3.x

telnet

Email - pine

My Computer

My computer (need new)

Map Network Drive

Network Drive
H:\\acSomthing\homes
L:\\acSomething\PCNFS
P:\\Acad1\Physics

\\academic\homes

Network Neighborhood

Entire network

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Excel

Key access

Keyacc - login

Keyacc - login - successful

Axum 5.0

Hummingbird Exceed 5

X to ac login

X to ac
• Exceed 6 w/ X11R6.3 (Broadway)

X/Maple on ac

Maple

Maple

Logoff

logoff

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