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Oregon State University Forestry Computing Resources Facilities and Equipment
The Forestry Computing facilities are managed by 10
fulltime Information Technology professionals with the support of 6-10
student technicians. The primary network at the OSU College of Forestry
consists of two master switches plus about 110 secondary switches. The computing facilities currently consist of an extensive Windows
and UNIX-based
workstation
network which services approximately 1200 devices (computers, printers,
servers, etc.) connected with over 60 miles of cable and fiber. The network
provides gigabit Ethernet
for interconnections, servers, and many the desktops with
100BASE-TX service available for less critical devices.
The buildings have
essentially complete 802.11g wireless network coverage providing access to
both the forestry and public campus networks. The primary network is connected to
the OSU, PNW, and FRESC networks which provide access to our 4 satellite
networks: OSU College Forests, Oak Creek building (formerly FRL), HJ Andrews
Experimental Forest and ODFW. Network activities are coordinated with
OSU Information Services to avoid redundancy and to assure interoperability.
As of June 2007, FCR maintains the following servers and disk space (gigabyte (GB) is 1000 megabytes (MB), terabyte (TB) is 1000 GB):
- 6 Web and Internet servers hosting Web Applications, ArcIMS, FTP, Remote Access, and Collaboration Applications, plus 3 additional Web servers for development and testing of new Web services
- A Microsoft Exchange cluster and 2 Unix mail servers supporting core e-mail, task, contact, and calendaring services plus mailing lists and Web e-mail access
- 7 Application servers with over 900GB of space
- 22 Windows and Unix file servers with over 25TB of disk space for public, workgroup, and user files
- A Microsoft SQL server cluster providing over 600GB of space for college and workgroup databases, plus an additional SQL server for development and testing
- 19 Administrative servers providing DNS (domain name services for the Internet), directory services (authentication), print services, system management services (inventory plus patch and application distribution), WSUS, and imaging
- 2 Tape backup servers with jukeboxes providing about 45TB of backup space
- 3 Public access UNIX workstations
- 3 Linux compute clusters providing a total of 144 processor nodes
Software available on the Foresty network includes geographic image processing (ERDAS IMAGINE 8.7 and 9.0), GIS applications (ESRI ArcView 3.2 and ArcGIS 9.2), statistical analysis applications (SAS 9.1 and Insightful Splus 7), mathematical analysis applications (Matlab available on Unix and Windows), database application (Microsoft Access 2003) and application development tools (Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003). To meet user needs multiple machines are made available for computationally intensive model runs.