Information Technology for Science & Research

Introduction

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I am working as IT Manager for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Most of my work is centered around research computing which in my world means LINUX. I design and maintain servers for Laboratories and Groups, develop software solution packages and implement strategies for data storage and analysis.

  • system design

    Servers & Clients.

    From standalone machine to complex clusters and custom build speciality servers. Filesharing (SMB/AFP/NFS), NIS, LDAP, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DNS, DHCP, CUPS, NAT, IPTables and other firewall products.

  • system integration

    Applications & Services.

    Open Source Software Solutions, Web Applications and Services.

  • system operations

    Monitoring & Maintenance.

    Software Updates. Security Audits. Performance Analysis and Monitoring. Backup Management and Verification.

from the blog

  • 03/10/2011 OpenCV installation.

    I am currently working on the integration of the OpenCV libraries und RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.5. 5.5 has native Python 2.4 support and OpenCV depends on Pyton 2.6...

  • 02/24/2011 Cpanel Migration.

    I am currently working on the migration of our WebLAMP accounts to the new Cpanel hosting environment.