Welcome to Borealis’s documentation!

• SuperDARN Canada System Specifications
  • Digital Radio Equipment
  • Control Computer
  • Networking
  • Rack and Cabling
• Full System Setup Procedures
  • Hardware
  • Software
• Starting and Stopping the Radar
  • Manual Start-up
  • Automated Start-up
  • Stopping the Radar
• Scheduling
• Building an Experiment
  • Introduction to Borealis Slices
  • Interfacing Types Between Slices
  • Slice Interfacing Examples
  • Slice Keys
  • Experiment Example
  • Checking Your Experiment for Errors
• Config Parameters
• Example configurations
• Borealis Processes
  • Runtime Processes
  • Experiment Components
  • Utils
• Borealis Data Files
  • Data Generation
  • Reading Data
• Data Storage and Deletion
• Borealis Monitoring
  • Nagios
  • Installation
• Lab Testing
• Tools
  • NEC
  • NTP
• Common Failure Modes
  • N200 Power loss
  • N200 10MHz reference loss
  • N200 PPS reference loss
  • N200 Ethernet loss
  • Borealis Startup with N200 PPS reference missing
  • Octoclock GPS Power loss
  • Front panel LEDS show incorrect pattern but Borealis continues to run normally
  • TXIO Cable disconnect from N200 or Transmitter
  • Shared memory full/Borealis unable to delete shared memory
  • remote_server.py Segfaults, other programs segfault (core-dump)
  • ‘CPU stuck’ messages from kernel, not possible to reboot
  • Number of sequences per integration time decreasing over time
  • Borealis only takes runs one integration time then stops
  • ZMQError in realtime module
  • Error while loading shared library libncurses.so.5
• Glossary

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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