Users and computers data base
With the remodeling of the displays in the main corridor, the panel showing
the pictures of the Research Area staff has been removed. If you just fell
in love with a postdoc next door, but you do not know who she is, and can not
longer use the panel to look up her face and find out her name, do not despair!
There is an excellent (and much more environmentally friendly) alternative
in our "Users and Computers" database:
http://marta/cdb/.
There you can see where people are located in the IAC building, look at their
picture, find their phone extension and the computer they are using. For a
panoramic view of all users pictures, just click on
"
users".
If you think that your photo fails to reflect adequately your handsomeness
and charm, please feel free to send us a better one.
Disclaimer: the accuracy and completeness of the database
rest on the information we receive from the Research and Graduate Studies Areas
(for users) and from the SIC (for hardware).
Update of PmWiki
We have recently updated to its latest version, 2.2.24, the PmWiki installations
we have in the external Web server
(
SIEpedia)
and in the IAC intranet
(
http://venus/SIE/wiki/).
The previous PmWiki version was already showing signs of its age, and had some
(minor) incompatibilities with the current PHP version running in our servers.
However, most of the changes that have been made are "under the hood",
and might not be readily apparent to the casual user. All the plug-ins we had
installed (Calendar, conversion to PDF, and others) seem to work fine, but please
let us know if you notice anything wrong (or just weird).
New Diodo
The
new diodo has been
busy number crunching during its first month of life (computing more hours than
in the whole second semester of 2010). During this month some problems have
arisen, mainly to do with the parallel file system (PVFS2), but a recent update
to the latest version has given us the more robust and stable version of PVFS2
to date. Some additional changes to Diodo are scheduled (next downtime on the
week starting April 25th), among them the inclusion of Diodo in the IAC Condor
pool. If you want to make use of Diodo or have any questions/suggestions/etc.,
just get in touch with us.
Migration of Web servers: status report
In the
last
issue of this newsletter, we announced that the Research Area Intranet was
moved from
goya to the new server,
venus, and that work was
in progress to migrate also part of the external website. As of now, the
SINFIN and
the
SIEpedia,
the
Aula
Virtual, the
IAC
Telescopes and Instruments web, the Winter Schools webs have been migrated
successfully, as well as many conferences and a few project and personal websites.
Basically, all websites belonging to the Research and Graduate Studies Area will
be eventually migrated to the new servers, together with some other Web applications
such as
eGroupWare.
Website requests now paperless
As part of the above change, now all requests for creating new personal, project
or conference websites have gone paperless (no more sheets to sign, get written
authorization, etc.). Just use the
new webform, which will create a new CAU ticket, and
we'll do the rest.