Office of Information Technology (OIT) Managed Services and Consulting Group

The University of Colorado at Boulder OIT Managed Services and Consulting team manages the servers that host the CYE Image Collection website. Its members include Jake Engleman, Jason Hill, Jesse Caldwell, and Orrie Gartner. The website accesses its images and data from the CYE's LUNA Insight image database.

The Insight database's "active" server is a Dell R510 system running RedHat Enterprise Linux 5. It is an x86-64 architecture with dual quad-core E5640 Xeon processors running at 2.66GHz each with 24GB of memory and nearly 3TB of storage in a RAID-5 configuration.

The video streaming server is a Dell 2950 system running RedHat Enterprise Linux 5. It is an x86-64 architecture with dual quad-core Xeon E5420 processors running at 2.5GHz each with 8GB of memory and nearly 4.5TB of storage in a RAID-5 configuration.

The third server is used to back-up the live LUNA Insight database and its JPEG 2000 derivative images, as well as the 20MB master TIFF image files. It also backs up the video streaming system. This server is a Dell 2950 system running RedHat Enterprise Linux 5. It is an x86-64 architecture with a single quad-core E5430 processor running at 2.67GHz with 2GB of RAM and 2.5TB of storage in a RAID-5 configuration. The backups are being done with rdiff-backup and are also periodically written to tape via an external LTO-3 tape drive attached to the server.

Digital Page, Inc. / Dallas Teks Group

Digital Page / Dallas Teks Group provided various consulting services in support of the ELCALP web interface project. Tasks included image capture consulting services, web interface graphic design, and custom web server application development. Image scanning procedures and techniques were developed by Rich Patterson for the Visual Resource Center to support the image acquisition of thousands of color slides and photographs. The web site you're viewing uses custom server programs developed by Jerry Spaeder to handle search requests and perform queries on an Insight database. Results of those queries are formatted and returned to your web browser, enabling you to browse the text and images housed in the electronic library.

Digital Page was incorporated in 1993, and provides digital imaging, database and web application development services. In 2002, the company changed its name to Dallas Teks Group and expanded into the world of virtual reality, providing virtual construction and panoramic photography services for the home building and real estate industries. From a production home builder in Texas to a university in Colorado to a steel company with roots in Pennsylvania, the clients of Dallas Teks Group are a diverse group. They are alike, however, in their requirements for high-quality work, reasonable cost and exceptional service.

PiXLClear Panorama Photography by Jerry Spaeder, Dallas Teks Group

Location: Near the Visitor Center at Rocky Mountain National Park