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Standards

This is a page containing standards (things we use, though lab members may choose their own) and other lab information.

Individual computers

  • Retired: omearalab1 and omearalab2 are two eMacs bought with personal funds in 2002/2003. One is now serving as my garage Mac, the other went to my mother.
  • mac pro imageomearalab3: Mac Pro, 2.66 GHz quad core, 6 GB memory, 500 GB HD, OS 10.4. Owner: O'Meara (paid for by grant money, legally removed to new location). Acquisition date: August 2006
  • mac pro imageomearalab4: MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz dual core, 2 GB memory, 185 GB HD, OS 10.5. Owner: UTK. User: O'Meara. Acquisition date: July 2009 (but purchased earlier -- multitouch keypad but no black rim on screen)
  • mac pro imageomearalab5: Mac Pro, 2 x 2.26 GHz quad core (8 core total), 8 GB memory, 1 TB HD, OS 10.5. Owner: UT Knoxville (off of startup money). Acquisition date: July 2010.

Servers

  • wd sharespace imageomearabackup1: Western Digital ShareSpace 4TB (set up as RAID5). Grant: National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) (NSF #EF-0423641). Acquisition date: July 2009.

Clusters

Printers, scanners, etc

  • Two of Acer X233Hbid Black 23" 5ms HDMI Full 1080P Widescreen LCD Monitor (startup funds)
  • Two of APC BE750G 750 VA 450 Watts 10 Outlets Power Saving Back-UPS ES (startup funds)

Source code repository

  • Google Project Hosting for most projects (cleaner and easier to use than SourceForge)
  • R-Forge for R code (checks builds, easy to move to CRAN when ready)

Subversion (for projects, not just code)

MacPorts used to install subversion 1.6.3 on omearalab3
svn* binaries copied from /opt/local/bin to /usr/local/bin (/opt/local/bin not in path when connecting remotely, despite editing various files)
repository at svn+ssh://[username]@omearalab5.dyndns.org/Users/[username]/svnserver/[repos]
Backups based on custom backup script. Three times a week, does full svnadmin dump of repos, discards copies older than two weeks, and sends copies of the new backup to omearabackup1 and omearalab3 and is also backed up to CrashPlan. Status emails are sent regarding the backup and any problems sending files. Hotcopy and incremental backups did not work as well, thus this option.

Word processing and references

  • Microsoft Word 2008 and EndNote (buggy, costly, and closed-source, but the standard for collaboration with many empirical biologists. We may go more towards OpenOffice/LaTeX later). Papers is used for PDF management for now (may transition to Sente)