Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility (MHMF.ORG)

Notices:

• Volocity software may require the license to be activated by an administrator

Introduction:

Snell is a high performance PC optimized for graphics.  This 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 PC with 2 GByte of RAM runs WindowsXP and has various specialized and general purpose image processing software is installed on it, as well as a 256 MByte accelerated OpenGL graphics card (8X AGP bus).  This computer is called \\SNELL and is a member of the MHMICROSCOPY domain.  Off campus VPN access requires knowing the ip number of this computer, which is 152.19.68.237.  Hence files can be accessed and transferred between the various user directories on the facility computers.  Also it can print to the Xerox Phaser 8550DP color printer over the network or the double sided capable laser printer \\MINSKY\HP1320-mhmf

Access:

To logon onto this computer a username, password and domain must be entered.  All three must be correct, and, not only allow access, but also determines which shared resources on the network the user has access to.  This is particularly important for access to the domain server, \\MINSKY.  Users can obtain an account from Michael.

Remote Access:  A small number of users have been granted permission to make remote desktop connects to this computer. Since only one person at time may connect to this computer, due to Windows XP licensing rules, these users must make sure that they logoff at the end of their remote terminal session on Snell, otherwise other users will be excluded from logging onto this computer remotely or at the keyboard console.  An administrator is required to boot off a user's session of they just disconnected from the computer rather than logoff.  For more information about this contact Michael.

Data Storage:

Users should save their data in a named directory in  D:\   or  E:\  or  F:\  or a share on \\minsky or  \\snell  or  C:\USERS   (these links on this web page will work if running from Internet Explorer) from other computers in the facility. The d:\  e:\  f:\  directory is shared on the Microsoft Windows Network as \\snell\users1, \\snell\users2, \\snell\users3 respectively (case is not important).  Access to this shared directory over the network requires an account on the MHmicroscopy domain.  Note that outside of the School of Medicine you may need to specify \\snell as \\snell.med.unc.edu  or \\152.19.68.237 instead.  See Michael for more information.

USB 2 & Firewire 1394 & eSata connectors are available on the lower front and rear of the computer case.  USB key drives can be plugged in or external disk drives connected to the computer.

DVDs or CDs may be read or written.  Roxio 9 software is available for writing to CD-R/RW or DVD+/-R/WR disks.

Hardware/Software:

• Snell
  • \\snell   or   \\snell.med.unc.edu   or   \\152.19.68.237
  • MHMICROSCOPY domain
  • ASUS 865 PC Pentium 4  3.0 GHz
  • RAM 2.0 GByte - DDR3200 400 MHz
  • 24X CD writer / 4X DVD+RW/+-R
  • USB2 & FireWire ports

   

  • Roxio Easy CD Creater 9 Silver - CDs and DVD+RW burning
  • Volocity 4.2 multidimensional image processing.  Volume visualization, 3D rendering or movie generation
  • Leica Confocal TCS Software (offline) performs same image processing/3D rendering/editing functions as parent Leica confocal microscope, but only on the Leica bundled image format files collected on the Leica confocal.
  • Zeiss Image (LSM) version 3.2 off line analysis, including feature present on main confocal acquisition system
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Premier CS
  • Microsoft Office 2003 - Word, Excel, Power Point, Access & FrontPage 2003
  • Winzip 11 - file/directory compression - creates a zipped file archive from one or more files
  • LViewPro - quick 2D image viewer - Also does simple slide shows
  • QuickTime 7 Pro - can open image series (time or z) and make movies in various formats.  The Pro version of QuickTime has enhancements which are not enabled in the standard Quick Time 5 version. 
  • Thumbs Plus 7 - A image viewing and cataloging program.  Can process images, convert formats and drag images into PhotoShop.
  • XnView - file conversion and viewing
  • Bitmap - image stack processing command line utilities

   

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