[48403] in Hotline Meeting
possible athenization of 3 suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noah Schottenfeld)
Wed Sep 8 16:13:07 1999
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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 16:10:03 -0400
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From: Noah Schottenfeld <noah@psyche.mit.edu>
Hello,
I work in the Brain and Cognitive Science Department where we use 3 Suns
(an Ultra 5, Ultra 1 and a SPARCstation 20) to do analysis of fMRI data.
These machines were set up by a Harvard-MGH person who does our
administration from afar and is paid on a hourly basis to upkeep our
machines. Recently one of our machines was cracked into by a fellow who
was exploiting a recent security patch to the SunOS. Our administrator was
just a few days too late in patching our machines and it ended up causing a
lot trouble.
anyways, as a possible solution to our network security issues, the idea
was thrown out that we could have our machines become a part of athena.
Our administrator thought this would be a good solution if our custom
software and about 20 Gigs of Harddirves would still be able to be used as
they normally are used. I am contacting you guys, to find out what I need
to do to get someone from Athena over here and check out our setup and talk
about the possibilities of these machines becoming part of athena.
I'm not sure how this is normally handled, and know that the needed
information is spread over a few people (such as administrator from MGH,
one post-doc in my lab and somepeople at athean). anyways, it is my job to
get this sorted out, and our current setup is not working for us b/c we
have no way to securely transfer large amounts (~ 700 MB for a single
subject) of data from our Suns to various PCs and Macs in our group.
Thanks for your time and hopefully this will be able to be resolved soon.
Noah Schottenfeld
Research Assistant/Lab Manager
Nancy Kanwisher's Lab
http://www-bcs.mit.edu/~nklab/
NE20-443 MIT
(617) 258-0670
noah@psyche.mit.edu
