RAL PPD Computing Installation
(Gareth Smith - last updated 2-Apr-2001)

Desktops (and Laptops)

• 80 PCs (Windows NT V4.0)  Still the default desktop device.
• PPD laptop loanpool of 5 Toshiba Portege 7010CT and 5 Dell latitude CPx laptops (running Windows 2000)

Servers

• LINUX: Viglen LX2 dual PII/450 (running RH6.2) + Viglen LX2 dual PII/450 (running RH6.1)
• HP-UX: D370 (running HP-UX 10.20) as a file server (no users)
• DAN dual P3/866 150GB raid server bought - to be installed.
• UNIX web server: 1 LINUX PC + Apache

• NT: Alpha 1000A (file server, BDC) + DEC Prioris P5/90 (PDC, print server)
• DAN P3/866 150GB raid server bought - to be installed.
• Microsoft Terminal Server (TSE) (with Citrix Metaframe) for applications not on desktops.
• NT web servers: 2 Intel servers (uni-PIII/450) + IIS (one Extranet, one Intranet)  One of these runs Windows 2000.

• VMS: 2 Alpha 1000(A) + 7 AlphaStations (running OpenVMS V7.1)

LAN

• DEChub 900 and PPD FDDI (all in machine room) to RAL FDDI backbone
• PPD 10/100/1000 Ethernet: 3COM 9300 Gigaswitch + 10 3COM 3300 switches
• All PPD offices connected to fully switched 10MBit Ethernet (Gigabit uplinks)
• Using DHCP for laptop support

Mail

• 90% of PPD using CLRC-managed Exchange service
• PPD has its own Exchange Server, purchased by us and run by ITD. Note - central support for scanning of e-mails for virus).
• Supported MUA's are Outlook and Pine

Non-supported systems

• Systems in RAL labs and test beams (many of these are LINUX)
• LINUX on the desktop still limited. There are some 3 users with two PCs each (One NT, one LINUX).
• Laptops not purchased by Computing Group (we offer initial installation of NT)

Other items

• CLRC Firewall implemented with protocol filtering and Security Policy published (by CLRC).
• Printing has been rationalised: all OS's print through a single server, run by ITD
• Colour printing on 1 HP Colour Laser, 1 HP ink jet (HP 2500) plus new Tektronix Phaser 850 solid ink.
• A public PC and ~6 physicist desktops are now equipped for Video Conferencing.
• Standardised on 19" monitors on PCs.

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