CARMA Network Booting
Colby Kraybill
Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720
Andrew Beard
Paul Daniel
Owens Valley Radio Observatory, California Institute of Technology

The antenna computers (antputers) on a standard CARMA antenna will not have any mass
storage devices from which to boot or store data. Similarly, the line length measurement
system and some elements of the COBRA correlator will have network booted computers. The
operating system will have to be loaded across the network, as well as all software that runs on
the computer to control and communicate with other systems. Fine details of how this is
accomplished are discussed.