HPVCIJSUMP UPDATES

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HPVCI-JSUMP UPDATES

• Rafael Mahecha, Dr. Paul Croft
• HPVCI, JSU MP

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New Equipment

• SGI 2100 in house (will run distributed version
  of operational mm5 coamps)
• 3 Linux Red Hat 7.0 (to research, new
  e-mail/web-server/development machines)
• Many more new PCs (minor duties, students, other
  faculty, staff, etc.)
• Office supplies

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Meetings and Training Sessions

• AMS (2 poster presentations)
• MAS (1 poster presentation)
• Training sessions (Linux support, install,
  computer security, sgi 2100, others as needed)
  provided recovery from hacks, upgraded OS,
  installed new software, etc.

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Immediate/Future

• Websites (DL, JSU MP, assisted by Lu, and
  students)
• Linux Alpha cluster (will process data faster,
  compare runs to sgi 2100)
• Mass storage (will connect to sgi/cluster to cut
  down in data-transfer times)
• More PCs (make available to faculty, staff,
  students)

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Immediate/Future (continued)

• Tech Memo Review (update/include new equipment,
  personnel, etc.)
• Improve computer security (firewall, tcp-wrappers
  implementation)
• Arrangements for NOAA Diversity Conference, Apr.
  1-3 (hosted by JSU)

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Problems

• Hacks (webserver completely down for several
  weeks, mail server and other Linux still with
  problems, 2nd HD on sgi O2 was down for sometime,
  etc.)
• Need assistant with expertise in UNIX, sys-admin,
  etc. (only ME tech-supporting the Meteorology
  portion of HPVCI)
• JSUs network unstable.

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Topics of Discussion

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Topic One

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Topic Two

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Topic Three

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Real Life

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• Sympathize with the audiences situation if
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What This Means

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Next Steps

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