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<p>Hi Eric,</p>
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<p>My advisor mentioned that I have the option of </p>
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<p>1.A normal linux PC or laptop</p>
<p>2.or using a cluster/ multiple cores</p>
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<p>What do you recommend for a beginner? I'm leaning towards a simple linux laptop or desktop.</p>
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<p>Diana</p>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Eric Greisen <egreisen@nrao.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 11, 2019 12:16:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Chen, Diana; daip@nrao.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: AIPS on windows</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 06/11/2019 09:41 AM, Chen, Diana wrote:<br>
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> Hi Eric,<br>
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> I'm planning to install today and I had some more questions.<br>
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> 1.If tapes drives are no longer being used, the tape drive menu section <br>
> in the install wizard will be skipped, right?<br>
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> 2. Does NRAO have sample interferometric data to test the AIPS software?<br>
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> 3.After installation, what do you estimate the general time period to <br>
> learn how to use the AIPS software be? I'm the only person learning and <br>
> using AIPS, and I wanted to be realistic about my goals.<br>
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There are several pages in the install for which the default behavior is <br>
fine, including tapes.<br>
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The aips web page <a href="http://www.aips.nrao.edu">www.aips.nrao.edu</a> refers to 2 VLBI tutorials. They
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affor downloadable data and a step by step set of instructions. Of <br>
course, VLBI data are harder to process than VLA data. You may find any <br>
sort of data you like from archive.nrao.edu - all VLA data older than a <br>
year is available to anyone.<br>
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3. I have no idea - that would depend on the person, how much time <br>
he/she can spend, etc. AIPS is so large by now that even I do not <br>
remember the names of everything or probably even their existence.<br>
The verb apropos is very useful.<br>
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Eric<br>
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