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Issue
25 - September 2000
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It's Time
to Upgrade Central Servers
By
John Chan
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To
prepare for the new academic year, the Computing Services Centre
(CSC) has added resources to some of the critical central servers
as enhancement to some of the existing services or as additions
of new services.
A lot of resources
have been added, particularly to the existing Sun Starfire machines.
These include additions of system boards, memory and storage space.
Some of the upgrades include the following:
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A new
Starfire domain has been set up for academic research work
that requires large computing resources. This system has forty
400MHz UltraSparc CPUs, and 14 GB memory that are most suitable
for large research projects requiring huge amount of processing
time.
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The WebCT
server has been upgraded to 8 CPUs and 4 GB memory. The increase
will be beneficial to the increasing number of Web-based courses
that are provided on-line.
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The student
Mail server has been upgraded with an additional 4 CPUs and
1 GB memory to cater for the increasing number of services
that will be put forth.
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The Intranet
Database and Web servers have been equipped with an additional
4 CPUs and 2GB memory to cater for the increasing number of
new services.
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The Banner
(Student Information System) Database server has been replaced
by a Sun Starfire system domain with 16 CPUs and 8 GB memory
to take care of the increasing number of Banner services.
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LDAP servers
have been set up to allow the lookup of information through
a central database, which in turn serves as a single point
for service access validation.
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A central
SQLserver database has been installed for those departments
that require this type of database access.
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Load balancing
feature has been added to some of the critical services. These
include the University Web servers, the LDAP servers, and
the Banner Web servers.
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