Sun Academic Excellence Grant (AEG)

Status


(2008/09/01) Sun Ray 270s have recently been added in TJ's cafeteria. There are six in the cafeteria, and more are expected to be added throughout the school. These areas will include the auditorium lobby and senior hall.

(2008/07/28) All biology and chemistry classrooms now have at least one Sun Ray. All foriegn language classrooms also now have at least one Sun Ray. Other various teachers have also requested stations for their classrooms.
 * 16 of 20 Sun Ray 2FS units have been deployed (the remaining 4 are already reserved for deployment or as spares).
 * All 100 Sun Ray 2 units have been deployed or reserved as spares.
 * Sun Ray 1 units from the old AEG are being redeployed to meet demand.
 * Four X4150s now drive the primary Sun Ray FOG.
 * AMGH has been fully configured to allow hotdesking between production, testing, and HPC FailOver Groups using smart cards.
 * Home users can now use the built-in IPSec VPN client; we've implemented a compatible solution without buying expensive Cisco hardware!

(2008/06/16) Network and power wiring for servers has been finalized. Three X4150s are currently in production for approximately 75 Sun Rays deployed throughout the school. Sun Rays have been set up in most biology and chemistry labs, the AP Computer Science lab, about half of the Senior Research Laboratories, in various locations as teacher workstations, and are being installed in all Foreign Language rooms and various other classrooms.

Mirror (Seatac, V245) has been set up and is currently syncing several distributions of Linux and some Sun-related repositories. Mirror (Seatac) syncs most repositories from GTlib

Arcturus (M4000) has been set up as a Sun Ray server in a separate FOG for high-performance computing, initially for the use by the Computer Systems Lab for supercomputing applications, the Neuroscience Lab for neuroimaging, and labs interested in using Matlab.

Betelgeuse (X4150) has been set up in a separate FOG to test new software and firmware updates before they are applied to the production Sun Ray servers.

(2008/04/18) Network and power wiring for servers are being finalized. Production infrastructure for Sun Rays is in place. Training is also occurring in parallel; pending completion of in-house training, additional servers will be added to the Sun Ray backend pool. Backend services are almost completely migrated off of old Sun hardware. Thin client installation is on-going in senior research labs (already completed swap-out in 231; fate of old stations TBD).

Authors

 * William Yang (Primary author)
 * Stephen (Trey) Repetski

Overview
Through the Sun Academic Excellence grant program, the Computer Systems Lab will deploy new Sun Ray thin clients in addition to refreshing the one lab currently in production (AP Computer Science Lab 231). These stations are for students (specifics TBD, currently projecting two new computer labs and placement in senior research labs). The Sun Ray 270s will be placed throughout the school to be used by students, faculty, and guests as kiosks. Smart Cards will be distributed to students by request for ease of use with Sun Ray clients.

Most servers will be used to power the Sun Ray backend. One SPARC server will be used as a supercomputing system. Other servers will run backend services.

The overall value of the grant equipment (tax exempt) is $388,048.00. Shipping will also be covered by Sun, which is an estimated value of $5978.70.

Items

 * 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 (4x2.15GHz SPARC64-VI dual-core processors (2 CPU boards with 2 CPUs each & 5MB on-chip L2 cache), 16GB RAM (2 memory modules with 8x1GB DDR2 DIMMs each), 2x73GB SAS hard disks)
 * 6 Sun Fire X4150 (2x3.16GHz Intel Xeon X5460 quad-core processors, 24GB RAM (12x2GB DIMMs), 2x73GB SAS hard disks)
 * 2 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1x1.2GHz UltraSPARC-T2 4-core processor, 8GB RAM, 4x146GB SAS hard disks)
 * 2 Sun Fire V245 (2x1.5GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi processors, 4GB RAM, 2x73GB hard disks)
 * 1 Sun Fire V215 (1x1.5GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi processor, 2GB RAM, 2x73GB hard disks)
 * 4 PCIe Dual Ultra320 SCSI HBAs
 * 100 Sun Ray 2 (including Type 7 Sun PC Keyboard/Mouse, 17" monitor)
 * 20 Sun Ray 2FS (including Type 7 Sun PC Keyboard/Mouse, 2x24.1" monitors)
 * 25 Sun Ray 270 (including Type 7 Sun PC Keyboard/Mouse, 17" monitor integrated)
 * 4 Sun Ultra 45 (2x1.6GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi processor, 2GB RAM, 2x250GB hard disks, 24.1" monitor, XVR-2500, XVR-300, DVD-Dual, Keyboard/Mouse)
 * 3 Sun Ultra 24 (3.00GHz Intel Core2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core processors, 2GB RAM, 250GB hard disk, 24.1" monitor, NVidia Quadro FX5600, NVidia Quadro FX570, DVD-Dual, Keyboard/Mouse)
 * 145 Sun Ray Software RTU Licenses
 * 2500 Payflex Smartcards with Sun artwork (100 packs of 25)
 * 1 Sun Rack 1000-42 (PDS option)
 * 4 VHDCI/VHDCI 2m SCSI cables
 * 2 HD68/VHDCI 4m SCSI cables
 * 4 HD68/VHDCI 2m SCSI cables

FY02?
Information on this AEG is incomplete.

Items

 * Sun Enterprise 450 (4x400MHz UltraSPARC-II processors, 4GB RAM, 4x36GB hard disks, integrated+2 PCI 10/100 Ethernet, Sun PGX64 graphics accelerator, 17" CRT monitor, Keyboard/Mouse)
 * 15 Sun Ray 100 (including Type 6 Sun PC Keyboard/Mouse???, 15" CRT monitor integrated)

Pictures

 * Sun Ray Lab 231 (to be added)