• UNIX - The following Unix flavors are supported for both DAQ Control/Monitoring/Diagnostic and Consumer type software:
  • Silicon Graphics IRIX. Version 6.5 is available on b0dau30.

  • FNAL Red Hat Linux - Red Hat Linux will be supported on Intel based hardware in accordance with the Fermilab Linux Support policy. Some additional general documentation from the Computing Division pcfarms group may be found here. Red Hat Linux will be the operating system used in the Level 3 processing nodes. The plan is to support it as well for both DAQ Control/Monitoring and Consumer type software. A system at B0 for general use is now available (node b0dap30). Also a number of PCs are available in the control rooms. Systems versions other than the Fermilab distribution of Redhat Linux cannot be supported by the CDF online group.

  • Sun Solaris version 2.5.1 - An upgrade to version 2.6 will be done when resources permit. At this time we do not anticipate major online support for Sun systems beyond hosting the Oracle database and VxWorks development.

  • Digital Unix - Relevant versions of core infrastructure packages will be supplied to collaborators for remote use as requested and as local resources permit. Currently, FNAL online group resources do not permit ANY support for Digital Unix. Assistance from remote users on maintaining Digital Unix versions would be welcome. Digital Unix will NOT be supported at B0 except as needed for the Level 2 processors.

• VxWorks - VxWorks is used in all VME based processors. Version 5.3.1 is currently the default for all processors. Version 5.2 should no longer be used. Host development is supported by Wind River only on Sun and Windows NT platforms. However, Fermilab provides the required cross compilation tools for IRIX and Linux as well. Only Motorola 68040 and Power PC based target processors are supported.

• Windows NT - Windows NT will be supported for DAQ Diagnostic type software only, and only to the extent that user code is written in Java. Windows NT versions of core infrastructure packages (FISION, ROBIN, etc.) are provided. VxWorks developer licenses for Windows NT hosts are available. General cross platform ("native" Windows/Unix) development of C/C++ software beyond the core infrastructure packages provided by the online group is strongly discouraged. The Cygnus Win32 package can be used to provide a unix like environment on NT. This package has been evaluated and is the prefered way of using NT. Documentation on how to configure an NT machine with CygWin, ups, etc. may be found here. Windows 95/98 is not supported at all.

Note that people who develop applications for general use are responsible for eventually making them work on all required platforms for that software type. In particular, DAQ Control/Monitoring/Diagnostic code intended for general use should work on all the above platforms except Windows NT.