Teleconference Minutes for Friday, Dec. 1 2000

SIRTF Galactic Plane Survey

Teleconference Minutes for Friday, Dec. 1 2000

Present in Madison:
  Benjamin, Whitney, Churchwell, Mathis, Kobulnicky
  Also Stephan Jansen

By Phone: Wolfire, Wolff, Seager, Clemens 

Budgets:
  Ed's conversation with T. Soifer
  we have to work with about $186,00 per six-month period for the first year
  Current launch July 2002

Computer Issues:

  SSC is a Solaris operation but will support LINUX
  Choice for hardware driven by Oracle; compilers learning toward Sun.  But
	 this machine need not be our data cruncher.  We could do data
	 processing in a distributed fashion; Stephan was optimistic that
	 the ethernet structure at UW would support that kind of data
	 transfer.  
    
Postdoc Hire:

  Daniel Dale would likely be on Kennicutt's team primarily
    
Survey Planning Team

Computer Team: 
  1) explore whether additional Oracle modules will work
	   under linux or if the one is all we need
  2) Come up with a recommendation for first computer purchase, presumably
     a Solaris machine that is expandable (this probably renders #1 above
     moot.)

Survey Planning Team
  1) Meet Thursday night in Pasadena (Churchwell, Clemens, Kobulnicky)
  2) Prepare an automated way to construct AORs with SSC

All
  1) Consider other postdocs we could hire

Next Telecon:
  
  Friday, Jan 5, 2:30 p.m. Central Time

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