Hardware Setup

This section gives short description of the hardware configuration of the general ESO computer facilities in Garching used for image processing. All relevant information concerning ESO's computing facilities are collected and available via URL:

http://www.eso.org/it/

The main installation contains a number of UNIX workstations and Servers (most of which are SUN/SPARC compatible). A complete list can be found at URL:

http://www.eso.org/it/unix.html

under Computing Facilities for each division. In addition several X-terminal are available. All the systems are interconnected through a Local Area Network using TCP/IP protocols.