Sun/IRAF V2.11 Site Manager's Guide
Sun/IRAF V2.11 Site Manager's Guide
IRAF is currently supported on all Sun models capable of running SunOS or
Solaris. Any of these system will make excellent IRAF hosts
In a typical installation
there will be a large central compute server, usually a fast Sun-4 with
several Gb of fast SMD or IPI disk and 32-64 Mb of memory, serving a number
of client nodes. For scientific use, a color screen
(17 inch is fine) and several hundred Mb of local disk is desirable.
The local SCSI disk is comparatively slow and is no substitute for the large,
fast disks on the server, but is cheap and is worthwhile for server
independence alone. The GX graphics accelerator option available on the
newer systems is attractive and is recommended, finances permitting. At
present IRAF takes no special advantage of high-end 3-D graphics cards but
users may still see improved windowing performance.