Topsail cluster ranks 74th on Top500 supercomputer sites
June 30, 2006 at 8:04 am | In ITS Announcements, Research NewsTopsail, the newest ITS research computing cluster, has been ranked 74th among the top 500 supercomputer sites worldwide by the Top500 project.
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June 30 Freaky Friday to cover IBM Totalstorage SAN Volume Controller
June 29, 2006 at 8:49 am | In EventsBeginning June 30, Freaky Fridays will begin at 11 a.m. The location, ITS Franklin G102, will remain the same.
This week, Mary Ellen Wetzler-Behar will present information about the IBM Totalstorage SAN Volume Controller. This product has matured considerably and presents interesting possibilities for managing storage across multiple vendor product lines.
New SAS license files available to campus users
June 28, 2006 at 7:23 am | In ITS Announcements, Research News, Service UpdatesNew SAS license files are now available to University students, faculty and staff. Campus users of SAS, a statistical software package, will begin to receive license expiration warnings starting July 15 unless a new license file is downloaded and applied.
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Backup solution reaches thousand-user mark
June 26, 2006 at 8:23 am | In FeaturesThis month, more than 1,000 people used the desktop backup solution offered by ITS to University faculty and staff. Use of the service has grown steadily since the University contracted with Iron Mountain, the world’s largest service provider of data backup and recovery and archiving software, to provide PC desktop backups for University faculty and staff.
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Carolina Computing Initiative to release RFP July 1
June 23, 2006 at 8:00 am | In FeaturesThe Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) will release a Request for Proposals to primary manufacturers of personal computers July 1. The current contract with IBM is set to expire this summer.
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