CAMAC Progress Report

                      Week Ending: April 20, 2001
                               Week: 12


Tom Folkers:
     1. Began evaluating the usefulness of RTLinux v3.0 for some of 
        our hard realtime requirements.
     2. Spent a day at the 12 Meter showing Tom Sargent around and 
        putting out little fires.
     3. Began running test of the accuracy of xntpd at keeping the 
        system clock on the money. First results are promising. Once 
        the system settles down, around 2 hours,  I get latencies on 
        the order of ± 100  µsecs. Now if I could only keep the 
        computer from crashing all the time...

Tom Sargent:
     1. Researched an NTP security exploit that was just discovered 
        the previous week.  I implemented the Authentication feature 
        in the NTP server to protect against this.  This is now 
        working.
     2. Went to the 12m Radio Telescope to observe the operation.
     3. Installed the Texas Instrument compiler linker software on the 
        Master Control Computer running under VMWARE PC emulator.  It 
        appears to work. I copied the Traquair development software to 
        the  Tracker/Server computer.  I expect to have the Traquair 
        processor running today.

Pete Hubbard:
     1. Finished assembling chassis for interface boards.
     2. Add op-amp for reference output on MPI 6000 board and tested.
     3. Made reference pulse 2ms on MPI 600 board. It was 1 us before.
     4. Assembled berg flex couplings with encoder and gear box.