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CCSO Instructional Sites

CCSO Instructional Sites. Randy Cetin Computing and Communications Services Office Assistant Director, Systems and Operations Systems Managers: Heather Norton, Ivan Moscoso. CCSO Instructional Sites. Mission to serve academic and instructional computing

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CCSO Instructional Sites

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  1. CCSO Instructional Sites Randy Cetin Computing and Communications Services Office Assistant Director, Systems and Operations Systems Managers: Heather Norton, Ivan Moscoso

  2. CCSO Instructional Sites • Mission • to serve academic and instructional computing • provide a flexible environment in which computers can function as an integral part of the instructional process

  3. Instructional Sites: Functions • Computer classroom • reserved for hands-on instruction, demo, and special events • Delivery point for instructional materials • class notes, assignments, data files, applications • General walk-in computing • email, news, web browsing, productivity tools

  4. Instructional Sites: Overview • 9 lab locations, (2) 24 hour sites • ~520 computers • b&w laser printers, (some color printers) • LCD and overhead projectors • staffed w/student sites consultants

  5. Instructional Sites: Details • ~56,300 keyboard hrs/wk (Fall/Spring) • ~29,000 keyboard hrs/wk (Summer) • ~ 2,299,863 keyboard hours/year • total cost per keyboard hour = ~$0.60 • assumes ~80% utilization of keyboard hours

  6. Sample Usage DataOregon Site (open 24 hrs) Mac Usage (46 macs) Win95 Usage (32 486) April 1997

  7. Sample Usage DataIllini Union (8am -midnight) Mac Usage (32 macs) Win95 Usage (26 Pentiums) April 1997

  8. Sample Usage DataUndergrad Library (8am -1am) MAC Usage (16 macs) Win95 Usage (41 486) April 1997

  9. Instructional Sites: Staffing • ~125 student sites consultants • labs are staffed 1900hrs/week • 6-7 student technical specialist • 7 full-time professionals • management of servers, desktop clients, OS installs & upgrade • investigating new technologies • hiring, training, scheduling student consultants • hardware maintenance / repair • documentation, general administration, payroll

  10. Instructional Sites: Servers • (6) Dell Pentiums running Novell IntranetWare 4.11 (fail-over after client reboot) • master server initiates incremental updates once each night, full rebuild every Saturday • Cheyenne ARCserve used for replication and server backups

  11. Instructional Sites: Desktop Clients • hourly integrity check of each desktop client (checkup) • application key serving of applications (soon to be integrated into a database for usage tracking and analysis) • 520 desktop computers • 60% MACs (MAC OS ver 7.5.3 ->7.6.1) • 40% PCs (Windows 95) • New purchases, more PCs • MAC /PC totals = 50/50

  12. Instructional Sites: Networking • upgrading to switched ethernet 10baseT • ~$425/port including cat 5 wiring • most labs connected to backbone via 100Mb/sec fiber • most servers on 100Mb/sec ethernet • Virtual Lan switching technology

  13. Network Traffic Samples Network Traffic From Each Lab Network Traffic To/From Servers

  14. Instructional Sites: Future • NT 4.X ? • Apple / MAC OS ? • Network Computers (NC) ? • Authentication / Authorization ? • Walk-up Computing ? • Common File Systems ? • Video to the desktop ? • Personal Ownership ? • Server Infrastructure / Instructional Software ?

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