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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) 2006/03/03 Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) 2006/03/03

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Near-Term Upgrades and Changes Other Needs

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Campus Impact

◮ Historically, primary customers were students, faculty, and

staff in Basic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Campus Impact

◮ Historically, primary customers were students, faculty, and

staff in Basic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering.

◮ In the last few years, customer base expanded to include

undergraduates in the Engineering Residence Hall.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Campus Impact

◮ Historically, primary customers were students, faculty, and

staff in Basic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering.

◮ In the last few years, customer base expanded to include

undergraduates in the Engineering Residence Hall.

◮ As of Fall 2005, facilities had expanded enough to offer

services to all Engineering graduate students, possibly with all

ther Engineering faculty and staff to follow.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Physical Facilities

◮ Approximately 50 Windows systems in central labs in Clement

Hall

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Physical Facilities

◮ Approximately 50 Windows systems in central labs in Clement

Hall

◮ Approximately 30 Windows systems in special-purpose labs

around campus

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Physical Facilities

◮ Approximately 50 Windows systems in central labs in Clement

Hall

◮ Approximately 30 Windows systems in special-purpose labs

around campus

◮ 12 Solaris and Linux systems, all remotely-accessible, some

with console access

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Physical Facilities

◮ Approximately 50 Windows systems in central labs in Clement

Hall

◮ Approximately 30 Windows systems in special-purpose labs

around campus

◮ 12 Solaris and Linux systems, all remotely-accessible, some

with console access

◮ 28-node parallel computing facility available overnight and on

weekends (5-node facility available 24/7)

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Physical Facilities

◮ Approximately 50 Windows systems in central labs in Clement

Hall

◮ Approximately 30 Windows systems in special-purpose labs

around campus

◮ 12 Solaris and Linux systems, all remotely-accessible, some

with console access

◮ 28-node parallel computing facility available overnight and on

weekends (5-node facility available 24/7)

◮ 1200 GB capacity file server holding 600 GB of university

academic and research data

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Physical Facilities

◮ Approximately 50 Windows systems in central labs in Clement

Hall

◮ Approximately 30 Windows systems in special-purpose labs

around campus

◮ 12 Solaris and Linux systems, all remotely-accessible, some

with console access

◮ 28-node parallel computing facility available overnight and on

weekends (5-node facility available 24/7)

◮ 1200 GB capacity file server holding 600 GB of university

academic and research data

◮ Daily, monthly, and end-of-semester tape backups of file

server data

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Network Infrastructure

◮ Central facilities are in Clement Hall and are largely

independent of the campus network

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Network Infrastructure

◮ Central facilities are in Clement Hall and are largely

independent of the campus network

◮ Firewall connecting central facilities to campus network

provides some level of security to labs and filters out unnecessary campus network traffic

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Physical Facilities Network Infrastructure

Network Infrastructure

◮ Central facilities are in Clement Hall and are largely

independent of the campus network

◮ Firewall connecting central facilities to campus network

provides some level of security to labs and filters out unnecessary campus network traffic

◮ Not part of ITS PCLAB domain, but each domain’s facilities

are accessible from the other

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Services Offered

3 Levels of User Accounts

◮ 1. Student accounts with access to CAE Windows systems in

CH405, CH406, CH409, and possibly other labs around

campus. Most people with this account type are

undergraduates.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Services Offered

3 Levels of User Accounts

◮ 1. Student accounts with access to CAE Windows systems in

CH405, CH406, CH409, and possibly other labs around

campus. Most people with this account type are

undergraduates.

◮ 2. Accounts with access to Windows systems listed above,

plus file server space and remote access to CAE Unix systems. Most people with this account type are grad students, faculty,

r staff.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Services Offered

3 Levels of User Accounts

◮ 1. Student accounts with access to CAE Windows systems in

CH405, CH406, CH409, and possibly other labs around

campus. Most people with this account type are

undergraduates.

◮ 2. Accounts with access to Windows systems listed above,

plus file server space and remote access to CAE Unix systems. Most people with this account type are grad students, faculty,

r staff.

◮ 3. Accounts with access to Windows systems listed above, file

server space and remote Unix access, plus physical access to

CH208. Most people with this account type are grad students

and faculty.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Other Services Offered

◮ Web space for publishing non-sensitive data or other materials

for coworkers here or elsewhere at http://www.cae.tntech.edu/∼USERNAME/

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Other Services Offered

◮ Web space for publishing non-sensitive data or other materials

for coworkers here or elsewhere at http://www.cae.tntech.edu/∼USERNAME/

◮ Semi-private web space for publishing more sensitive data in

files and folders under http://www.cae.tntech.edu/∼USERNAME/private/

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans

Other Services Offered

◮ Web space for publishing non-sensitive data or other materials

for coworkers here or elsewhere at http://www.cae.tntech.edu/∼USERNAME/

◮ Semi-private web space for publishing more sensitive data in

files and folders under http://www.cae.tntech.edu/∼USERNAME/private/

◮ Email services for USERNAME@cae.tntech.edu, for receiving

files too large to send via campus email services

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Near-Term Upgrades and Changes Other Needs

Near-Term Upgrades and Changes

◮ Possible offer of level 1 accounts to all engineering

undergraduates, to complement existing offer of level 2 accounts ot all engineering graduate students

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Near-Term Upgrades and Changes Other Needs

Near-Term Upgrades and Changes

◮ Possible offer of level 1 accounts to all engineering

undergraduates, to complement existing offer of level 2 accounts ot all engineering graduate students

◮ Satellite lab for ChE in Prescott Hall

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Near-Term Upgrades and Changes Other Needs

Near-Term Upgrades and Changes

◮ Possible offer of level 1 accounts to all engineering

undergraduates, to complement existing offer of level 2 accounts ot all engineering graduate students

◮ Satellite lab for ChE in Prescott Hall ◮ Addition of two Linux servers to augment existing 24/7

computational capacity (30% increase over current capabilities)

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Near-Term Upgrades and Changes Other Needs

Near-Term Upgrades and Changes

◮ Possible offer of level 1 accounts to all engineering

undergraduates, to complement existing offer of level 2 accounts ot all engineering graduate students

◮ Satellite lab for ChE in Prescott Hall ◮ Addition of two Linux servers to augment existing 24/7

computational capacity (30% increase over current capabilities)

◮ Upgrade of CH406 lab will increase overnight parallel

capabilities by 28 CPUs and 14 GB of memory (100% increase

ver current capabilities)

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Near-Term Upgrades and Changes Other Needs

Near-Term Upgrades and Changes

◮ Possible offer of level 1 accounts to all engineering

undergraduates, to complement existing offer of level 2 accounts ot all engineering graduate students

◮ Satellite lab for ChE in Prescott Hall ◮ Addition of two Linux servers to augment existing 24/7

computational capacity (30% increase over current capabilities)

◮ Upgrade of CH406 lab will increase overnight parallel

capabilities by 28 CPUs and 14 GB of memory (100% increase

ver current capabilities)

◮ Replacement of two Windows systems in CAE Lab purchased

in 2001, including conversion of old Windows systems to Linux.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Near-Term Upgrades and Changes Other Needs

Things You May Want

◮ Level 2 or 3 accounts for faculty and staff who don’t already

have them.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities

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Outline Campus Impact Physical Facilities and Infrastructure Services Offered Future Plans Near-Term Upgrades and Changes Other Needs

Things You May Want

◮ Level 2 or 3 accounts for faculty and staff who don’t already

have them.

◮ Things I’ve not yet thought of.

Mike Renfro (renfro@tntech.edu) TTU Computer-Aided Engineering Network Facilities