A Solaris version of the seismic acquisition software "A2D" was supplied a by University of Hawaii developer but was found to contain severe bugs. The developer has not agreed to debug the software at this time. The project team initiated a back-up plan utilizing in house expertise to rectify these deficiencies. This resulted in the production of an apparently functional (bug-free) version of A2D and deployment is now scheduled for Leg 171A. Testing will be conducted on the backup seismic acquisition computer in parallel with the primary system (running SunOS). Testing will take several legs at least to show if it is possible to phase out the SunOS 4.1.3 operating system in the Underway Laboratory.
[ Contents of the Semiannual Report, No. 2, June-November 1996 |
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