ESO Santiago Office  2/24/2003
10:30-13:00
Sasaki, Kosugi, Noumaru, Weber
Christian Saldias, Philip Harboe, Eduardo Cellis

*Network
  Garching - Paranal  Satellite RTT=800-1000ms 2.5Mbps
  Garching - La Silla Satellite 1.6Mbps 
  Paranal  - Vitacula(Santiago) Fiber 2Mbps
  La Silla - Vitacula Fiber 2Mbps

  ISDN is available among all sites. 128kbps. For backup only.

  Satellite: twice a year(March, September), when the satellite faces
    to the Sun, noise increases. Weather.

  Internet and Internet 2 are available between Garching and Vitacula
    Internet 2: Latency 225ms through US, provided by two companies.
                Available for two years.
    Internet: 250ms

  ESO has class B IP addresses. Most of data among sites flows internal
      network.
  Faster Fiber connection is planned (48-128Mbps might be enough)

*Data Archives/Data handling
  Data is saved on the telescope site and Garching, not at Santiago.
  Data is copied to 2 sets of CD/DVD by operators; one is for archives at 
telescope site and another is transferred to Garching via plane.
  Another copy is made to hand it to observaers.

*Remote Observation
  Remote observation never happens from Santiago.
  Once tested between Paranal and Garching using the satellite communication.
  But there is no request from astronomers and remote observation is not pursued.
  Observers are requested to visit telescope sites.
	
*Santiago Office
 	where astronomers stop by before and after visiting telescopes.
  Staffing
 	5 electric, computer and network
	25 admin (handle all administrative work in Chile)
	80 (resident) astronomers(all astronomers in ESO Chile have desks in Vitacula) 
	(1 to 25) visitors.
 
  Paranal with small office in Antofagasta
    12 staff for computer, network, electricity(generator)
    Most(99%) live in Santiago. One week on follows by one-week off.

  La Silla with small office in La Serena
    200 staff, 4 out of 200 work for network and computers.

  Video conferencing manufactured by BENDBERG(?) using IP.
  A building formerly used as a workshop is now converted to astronomers office.
  The capacity is 80 and two shares one room. But normally only one is in the office.
  The guest stays in the office of the host.
  Spanish class is held by the expense of ESO.
  Clean, organized and good office. Cable management. No clutter

*Computer tasks
  No software development in Santiago.
  System administrators receive SciSoft compiled by Garching twice a year and 
report bugs and problems to Garching.
  SciSoft: IDL, IRAF, MIDAS, SkyCat...

*Computer Platforms
	HP and Sun in Garching
	HP in La Silla
	HP in Paranal
	Linux/WindowsXP in Santiago
		Stnadard PC
		Dell PC with Redhat SuSe or Redhat 7.3

	Has UPS 60KVA and a diesel generator. Their demand is 15KVA
		 is independent administration from others.
  PC Environment
	Both notebook and desktop PC is standardized.
	Purchase 40-50 sets of computers at a time and install standard sets of software.
	Desktop is upgraded by components (motherboard, graphic card, etc.)
	System admin has responsibilities only the system which is not altered by 
sers.
	Notebook PC has configured as dual boot (Linux and Windows XP English).
	Notebook has resolution of 1600 by 1400.
	Hardware is replaced at least every three years.
	ESO standard is RedHat Linux. But SuSE is emerging.
	Backup of notebook PC's data is not officially offered.
	NFS is not used and necessary software is locally installed.
	SCR directory on server is used for data transfer with some limitation of 
directory size.
	ADS (Active Directory) to make desktop common environment.

*Documentation
  Planning for central (technical) documentation for all the telescopes.
  All technical documentation is machine-redable.

Very effective adminstration by standardization.

							Original: J. Noumaru
							Revised:  T.Sasaki