Autumn 2005 Preview

Planned Upgrades, Replacements, New Capabilities

  1. Upgrade OSes

    1. Windows XP on all lab workstations and removable hard drives (RHDs)
    2. Fedora Core 4 on all dual-boot workstations and RHDs
    3. Red Hat Enterprise 4 on all key Linux servers
    4. Windows Server 2003 SP1 on all Windows servers
    5. Solaris 10 on Suns
    6. OS X Tiger on all Apples

  2. Upgrade applications, SDKs, tools

    1. JDK 1.5 and updated JDBC everywhere
    2. Office 2003 on workstations
    3. Photoshop CS

  3. Upgrade services

    1. mysql 5.0 (cssgate/repos)
    2. jboss 4.0 (cssgate/repos)
    3. tomcat 5.x (cssgate/repos to level supported by jboss)
    4. NFS 4 (ITFiles)
    5. IIS (sts2, change to individual web spaces)
    6. clustered print server (intkfs1a,intkfs1b)
    7. SQL Server SP4 (iai6650)
    8. DB2 8.2 (iai6650)
    9. Oracle 10 (iai6650)
    10. CSS web server moved
    11. application director (css1bdc) moved

  4. Upgrade workstation hardware

    1. RAM increase to 1GB (DOU110,SCI108)

  5. Replace aging worsktations

    1. LCD monitors everywhere
    2. new Dell 370s (SCI106,SCI108)
    3. 64-bit dual processor, high quality computers (SCI113)

  6. Replace server hardware

    1. authentication and licensing servers (intkpr1,css1)
    2. wireless access control server (sputnik)
    3. repository and gateway (repos/cssgate)
    4. application build server (aka sci113a)
    5. image server (intkts1)

  7. Install and sonfigure new servers

    1. clustered web/ftp/cvs servers

  8. Move servers

    1. cssgate/repos
    2. intkpr1 and css1
    3. sputnik
    4. rigel
    5. lbs
    6. application build

  9. Move equipment

    1. new Ultrium3 tape autoloader to SCI112

      1. old Ultrium1 tape autoloader to PNK131
    2. new iSCSI SAN to SCI112
    3. big server cases (BBBs) to CP206E

  10. Expand network access and control

    1. firewalls around each server complex

      1. SCI112
      2. CP206E
      3. CP206N (ADC,IAI,consensus)

  11. Increase shared disk storage

    1. install approx. 900GB of storage in RAID 5 with 1 hot spare

      1. 500GB for user home directories (250MB per user)
      2. 100GB for shared application space
      3. 50GB test space
      4. 250GB spare capacity

  12. Upgrade faculty/staff software from new keyed versions

    1. Dreamweaver MX 2004
    2. Photoshop CS
    3. Acrobat 7.0 Standard
    4. Illustrator CS
    5. Indesign CS

  13. Enable single signon for lab computers (fully for students only)

    1. everyone uses u.washington.edu as domain in labs
    2. students use u.washington.edu in classrooms
      • still have different home directories
    3. faculty/staff use UWT in classrooms and in office

  14. Upgrade TARL applications

    1. ADC Lab

      1. jboss 4 with tomcat 5.x

    2. ECS Lab

      1. Z8 Encore IDE
      2. Robolab
      3. Others

    3. IAI Lab

      1. database clients
      2. Newer version of apps
      3. SPSS and Clementine (grad students only)

    4. IAN Lab

      1. VMWare 5.0