Since 1966, VICAR has processed images delivered by Viking, Voyager, Galileo, and recent Mars missions. In the fall of 2001, Terra Soft assisted with the port of VICAR (Video Image Communication And Retrieval) to YDL and the briQs. This 7200 (right) produced the first YDL port.

Hands-on at NASA JPL MIPL (Multimission Image Processing Lab) (below left, right).

MIPL houses a total of 36 Yellow Dog Linux nodes (46 CPUs): 20 stationary briQs, 2-node portable cluster (bottom four), 4 Apple G4s, and 10 GVS 9000s. The portable cluster, designed & built by Terra Soft specially for JPL, contains 2-500 MHz briQs, a 4-node hub, Titanium laptop. Standard carry-on luggage form-factor, water-tight, and self-contained (aside from power).