Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
As part of our NSF-funded study, Coordinated Imaging and Scintillation Study of the Conjugate Nature of Equatorial Plasma Irregularities, we installed a narrow-field PICASSO imaging system and two GPS-L1 scintillation monitors at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, near La Serena, Chile. The systems were initially installed in August, 2006 in the airglow facility run by Scientific Solutions, Inc,. More information on the installation can be found here.
File Server
In light of the amount of data that is a part of this research program, storage becomes an issue. Following guidelines found on the web, a customized terabyte server was put together for under $1500. The specs are:
| Motherboard | Gigabyte 2004 7NF-RZ |
| Processor | Athlon XP 2100+ |
| Memory | 512 MB |
| Storage | 8 x 200 GB Maxtor Hard drive |
| RAID Controller | HighPoint RocketRAID 454 |
| Optical Device | Optorite 12x DVD+RW |
The hard drives are in a RAID 50 configuration allowing for a total of 1.07 TB in storage. Currently, 921.95 GB of this space is being used, leaving 178.36 GB for future use.
