Technical Services News & Updates

PowerPoint of PlanNet final Assessment is online

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:40:01 -0700

A PowerPoint presentation of PlanNet's Technology Assessment is available for download.
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PlanNet Final report is now available

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:36:44 -0700

The final version of PlanNet's Technology Assessment is available for download.
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NASA's biggest runs Novell's SLES 10

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:11:51 -0700

The largest machine at NASA Ames is the "Columbia" Itanium-InfiniBand cluster, which runs Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Columbia is actually three different generations of Altix servers, with a total of 10,240 cores. The first piece was comprised of air-cooled Altix 3700s, followed by Altix 3700 BX2 machines, which came equipped with water jackets to take the heat out of the racks. The Altix 4700 portions of the Columbia cluster also have water jackets.
Interestingly enough, we have an instance of this Operating System running in our datacenter, our Novell Conferencing Server, and Novell has plans to roll this Enterprise Linux Server out as their main platform in the future, with their ever popular NetWare™ platform running in a virtualized space.

If you would like to read more about this development at NASA and other plans that they are making with Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, click here.

NASA, SGI and Novell's SLES 10

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:59:38 -0700

NASA's plan to resume manned missions to the moon, and eventually manned exploration of Mars, is one of the chief reasons for securing a new, exceptionally powerful computing resource. In addition to space exploration, the new SGI supercomputer will support NASA's aeronautics, science and space operations initiatives.
This new supercomputer system will be powered by Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.
To read more, click here.

VVC SAN consistently winning awards

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:32:46 -0700

Victor Valley College's SAN vendor COMPELLENT has been consistently winning major storage industry awards. To quote a recent Press Release of theirs:
There are a lot of choices in the storage industry, but when it comes to ease-of-use and efficiency there is a clear winner. The Compellent SAN was recently named the Microsoft Storage Solutions Partner of the Year, garnered the InfoWorld Best SAN designation and took home the Storage Magazine Quality Award.
We are proud of our choices within the data center here at VVC, and this choice continues to shine.
To view these awards for yourself, click here.

Summer Staffing Schedule

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:50:46 -0700

Need to contact someone for support on Monday or Friday, but you don't know who is working on which day?
We are fully staffed, 5-days per week during the Summer '08 Schedule
The list below is provided for your convenience:

DAY OFF - Monday (working Tuesday - Friday)

Gary Bernor (Telecommunications) - phone extension: 2669
Jim Comstock (Technician) - phone extension: 2346
Babette Dershem (IMS) - phone extension: 2424
Justin Gatewood (Webmaster) - phone extension: 2697
Brian Hatchell (Network Manager) - phone extension: 2792

DAY OFF - Friday (working Monday - Thursday)

Thom Gilbert (Network Manager) - phone extension: 2301
Mo Morgan (Network Manager) - phone extension: 2651
Robert Romberger (Technician) - phone extension: 2660
Bob Richey (Telecommunications) - phone extension: 2351 (retiring June 30th, 2008)
Tim Isbell (IMS) - phone extension: 2488
Elizabeth Thornhill (Admin. Sec.) - phone extension: 2333

PlanNet Draft is available online

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:04:30 -0700

PlanNet has sent us a draft (dated: 5-27-08) of the Campus-wide Technology Assessment Report. It is available