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Enterprise Services Section

The Distributed Systems Group

The Distributed Systems Group (DSG) of ESS provides, maintains, and administers the necessary computer service infrastructure for the NCAR community to conduct daily computational activities. Examples of such service infrastructure are the NCAR electronic mail service, both Internet and Intranet World Wide Web (WWW) servers, and Domain Name Service (DNS) for NCAR. Most of these services are provided transparently to NCAR users. In addition, DSG supports and administers interactive servers on which UCAR, NCAR, and SCD users conduct daily activities (e.g., e-mail, text editing, MSS access), gateway servers that process 40% of supercomputer job submittals and MSS activity, network file service (NFS) for over 1200 UCAR and NCAR users, security monitoring and filtering, library access and queries, and computational service (e.g., CSS HPC test server). DSG also is responsible for the administration of UNIX desktops within CISL.

Extraview Work Request Form

This form provides an easy means of filing a work request with DSG.

DSG Staff

• Lynda McGinley (Group Head)
• Ed Arnold
• Joel Daves
• Paul Goodman
• Gary Studwell
• Greg Woods (Assistant Group Head)

SECURITY Staff

• Rich Johnson
• Wendy Derman
• Sean McCreary
• Lynda McGinley

General Information Items

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Primer on the DSG Filesystem Structure
• Using OpenOffice on Solaris
• Setting up Citrix
• Configuring a client to use Network Time Protocol

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