Athena Program
This page is the section for the overall Athena Program -- various projects associated with Athena renewals, hardware and software upgrades, etc. Program Manager is Bill Cattey, including projects, metrics, background information on Athena, and much more. The Athena Program is part of the IS&T Faculty and Student Experience team, under the Client Support Services directorate.
Projects
Project | Start Date | Estimated Completion Date | Status | Notes | |||||
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— | — | ON TRACK | While the initial project to deploy Debathena (f/k/a Athena 10) to the public clusters is now complete, Debathena remains an ongoing project under active development. | — | — | ON TRACK | Public Athena systems are being replaced; "Buy Athena" docs are revised; TODO: Finish the inventory of staff and department/lab/center systems. | ||
08-JAN-2009 | 1-FEB-2010 | DONE | Outreach to customers and transition assistance regarding decommissioning of Solaris as an Athena platform. | ||||||
1-JUN-2009 | — | RAMP UP | Gather concrete data to determine who uses Athena, and how, when, and why they use it | ON TRACK | In the coming yea we will reach out to customers in advance of next year's de-commissioning of the last Cluster desktop Suns. | ||||
— | — | RAMP UPPLANNING | XMPP/Jabber seems the way of the future. Investigate replacing Zephyr with Jabber. | ||||||
31-AUG-2009 | 31-OCT-2010 | DONE | Encourage community to transition to Debathena and ramp down support for Athena 9. |
Completed Projects
Completed projects may be viewed on the Project Archive page.