[daip] Filling with FILLM and the VLA?

[Eric Greisen]

Steve Steele writes:
 > I have  a question for you, if I may: "Is there any more Filling with 
 > FILLM and the VLA?".
 > 
 > According  to Jim Ulvestad, in April of last year, the capacity is not 
 > available beyond the AOC because tests were st best, inconsistent.
 > 
 > Is this still the case?
 > 
 > I was wondering whether having real time fillm was any way possible at 
 > the VLA.
 > 

So far as I know it works at present.  miranda has been kept up to
date and has the 31DEC08 version of aips.  I forgot to update the
online version of FILLM to match changes I made recently - but I am
doing - just finished - the link edit now.  Mu main concern is that
miranda is an old, slow machine that is used for other things at the
site including some that must be time critical - there is a big sign
on it about do not reboot.  If an aips user got serious on miranda,
the machine might get overloaded and be unable to do its other work.

It should work on miranda.  If there are other machines up there - the
HOSTS.LIST shows 
+  BANSHEE    SUL     NRAOVLA  NONE        Sun Ultra 1, VLA Operators
+  MIRANDA    SUL     NRAOVLA  NONE        Sun Ultra 2, Site WS
+  PUCK       SUL     NRAOVLA  NONE        Sun Ultra 1, VLA site
+  POKEY      SUL     NRAOVLA  NONE        Sun Ultra 1, VLA site
which are supported by miranda.  I think eva works via the AOC copy of
aips - there is no linux installation of aips at the VLA site.

+  EVA        LINUX   COAOARN  NONE        Operators Linux system

We really should have a modern, presumably Linux, machine up there
with an aips installation.  But my requests for same have gone
unheaded.

Eric Greisen