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Athena consists of multiple software components and services provided by IS&T. For detailed information on these components and services, including information on how they are utilized across the community, please see the "Components of Athena" page.
High-level Commitments
# | Commitment | Type |
|---|---|---|
1 | 6-month "currency" releases tracking Ubuntu releases | Critical |
2 | Incremental feature additions and enhancements | Important |
3 | Support deployed student computing environment (clusters, kiosks, dorms) | Critical |
4 | Support "private workstation" functionality (DLC deployed, personal) | Critical |
5 | Develop and maintain development relationship with SIPB | Important |
Service Scale
Deployment | Unit | Units | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
Publicly deployed student lab/cluster machines | Workstation | 268 | Core |
Publicly deployed kiosk machines | Workstation | X | Core |
Dorm lab/cluster machines | Workstation | X | Core |
DLC student machines | ComputerWorkstation |
| ? |
Personal student/faculty machines | ComputerWorkstation |
| ? |
Resources Summary
Name | Effort | Regularity | Composition | Level | Skills | Impact | Notes |
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Andrew Boardman | 16 hours | Weekly | Substance | Senior Programmer | Systems and application Linux development, Debian package creation, release engineering | Critical | Blah blah blah |
Bob Basch | 16 hours | Weekly | Substance | Senior Programmer | Systems and application Linux development, Firefox development, Debian package creation | Critical | Blah blah blah |
Jon Reed | 16 hours | Weekly | Mixture | Senior Consultant | Application development and scripting, documentation, training, support | Critical | Blah blah blah |
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Constraint | Imposed by | Impact of relaxing? |
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Six-monthly releases | Real worldLoss of face | Increased cost down the road jumping releases, |
Things to add...
- What our solution for clusters gives us
- Cost per deployment
- How are our clusters better than their (other institutions?) clusters? Are they?
- Software suite?
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