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.
Projects and summary status
- Revise Buy Athena online Documents
Work has been scoped, amendments are being drafted. Some obsolete docs are being removed.
- Athena Installer 2008
All development work is complete. All known issues have been resolved.
New media has been released in ISO image form.
Request has been made to network to update the PXE server with the new
- Athena 10
Organized plan for Preview deliverable into an Agile Methods "Scrum"
- Athena Renewal FY 2009
Hardware Core team has made some decisions; "Buy Athena" web pages under revision; Inventory proceeds.
, 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. | |
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. | |
— | — | PLANNING |
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XMPP/Jabber seems the way of the future. Investigate replacing Zephyr with Jabber. |
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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.