SDSS Science Archive Resources

SX Personnel

Department of Physics and Astronomy, JHU

Alex Szalay, faculty

Peter Kunszt, associate research scientist

Ani Thakar, associate research scientist

Jan vandenBerg, system administrator

Department of Computer Science, JHU

Mike Goodrich, faculty

Amitabh Chaudhary, graduate student

Supported SX Platforms

Primary deployment: SGI IRIX6.5 running on an Origin2000

RedHat Linux 6.0

Digital Tru64 Unix

Sun Solaris 2.7

Windows NT (in development)

SX Hardware at Hopkins

1 Compaq Digital Alpha Server running OSF/1

Array of DELL Dual Pentium running Redhat Linux 6.0

1 Sun UltraSparc 5 running Solaris 2.7

SX Software

Commercial Software used by SX

Objectivity OODBMS

RogueWave Tools++, ToolPro++, Threads++

Paradigm Plus

SandStone Visual Parse++

Generic / Public Domain Software used by SX

Coding is done in C++ and in Tcl/Tk for the GUI

Makefiles for different platforms generated by Perl scripts

Peter Z. Kunszt, Ani R. Thakar,
Last Modified: October 14, 1999.