The infrared and x-ray astronomy groups share the common "iras" network.  Spread over several offices and labs there are:

• 5 main servers
• 5 Pentium IV workstations
• 4 Laser Printers
• 1 Color printer
• 2 Color Scanners

User files are stored on a main file server with a total storage space of 500 GB.  Our PCs operate Windows XP, and Fedora Linux. Under Windows, users can log in via Starnet's X-Win32 xterm emulator which allows the PC to act as an X-terminal. Under Linux, users may use X directly and access much of the software that is on the workstations directly from the PCs.

Some of the software that is installed and used at our site includes:

• IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) is used to analyze astronomical data
• FTOOLS
• MIDAS(Munich Image and Data Analysis System) is the European equivalent of IRAF
• DRAO software
• IDL 6.0
• PROS
• DISSPLA
• AIPS
• Visual Studio
• Adobe Photoshop

Locally Developed Software