SCIENCE AND VISUALIZATION
Write Your Own CDs
Using Young Minds CD Studio
by Edward Friedman
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The ACF now has an easy-to-use UNIX-based compact disk recorder available for those who need to store or distribute massive amounts of data. CD Studio, from Young Minds, is capable of recording up to 650 megabytes onto a single blank CD in under 20 minutes in a single session. At this point, it is not possible to append information from multiple sessions.
Some of the possible uses are
- Recording permanent copies of critical experimental or empirical data.
- Recording the output of very long computer simulations
- Storage of scanned or fabricated digital images similar to a Kodak Photo CD.
- Making multiple copies of locally developed application codes and data for distribution or archiving.
The system is located in the Scientific Computing bay of the Innovation Center on the second floor of Warren Weaver Hall. To gain access to CD Studio, users need to have an account on the Science SGI Cluster and also must provide their own blank CD media. The current cost is about $10.00 for a 74-minute blank CD, capable of holding up to 650 megabytes of information.
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Edward Friedman was the ACF's Associate Director for Scientific Computing at the time of this article's publication.
{edward.friedman@nyu.edu}
Posted 21 February 1996. Revised 24 May 2004.
