Content Physics Computing Website
Dear All, Something that has been on my (low priority) list of things to do for about a year is the restructuring of Physics Departmental Computing pages. Caroline Jackson has offered to do the work and she is waiting on me (and has been for the best part of a year). So now I am trying to think of useful content. so far I have: - A list of group representatives - minutes of our meetings - Licensing information for things for which we have site/faculty licenses (often just a statement and link to the ICT shop) - Links to ICT general support pages. What else would be useful? Best, david
Hi David, A list of Departmental computing resources would be helpful, in particular things like: - storage space available/provided to staff / postdocs / students and how to apply for more storage (e.g. the 'H' drive) - Departmental printing facilities (e.g. Neal Powell in Blackett 206) for poster printing (maybe this is already listed on the Physics web pages?) - any other Departmental IT resources (e.g. server rooms, printer rooms run by ICT, etc.) Something possibly more contentious, but it would be useful (to me at least) to know if there are any other groups in the Department still running SOLARIS (SPARC) systems - so a brief summary of computing facilities in each Group might be useful: e.g. SPAT - variety of Sun SOLARIS (SPARC), Linux-based NAS devices (total approx. 0.75PB), DAS devices, and desktop PCs running Windows/Linux. Feel free to disagree with my suggestions of course. Rich -----Original Message----- From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Colling Sent: 31 July 2013 10:15 To: physics-departmental-computing; Jackson, Caroline Subject: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Content Physics Computing Website Dear All, Something that has been on my (low priority) list of things to do for about a year is the restructuring of Physics Departmental Computing pages. Caroline Jackson has offered to do the work and she is waiting on me (and has been for the best part of a year). So now I am trying to think of useful content. so far I have: - A list of group representatives - minutes of our meetings - Licensing information for things for which we have site/faculty licenses (often just a statement and link to the ICT shop) - Links to ICT general support pages. What else would be useful? Best, david _______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing
Hi Rich, Thanks for this.
A list of Departmental computing resources would be helpful, in particular things like: - storage space available/provided to staff / postdocs / students and how to apply for more storage (e.g. the 'H' drive)
The only problem that I can see is that I have to approve every increase in people's H drives regardless of whether I know them or not ;-)
- Departmental printing facilities (e.g. Neal Powell in Blackett 206) for poster printing (maybe this is already listed on the Physics web pages?) - any other Departmental IT resources (e.g. server rooms, printer rooms run by ICT, etc.)
Something possibly more contentious, but it would be useful (to me at least) to know if there are any other groups in the Department still running SOLARIS (SPARC) systems - so a brief summary of computing facilities in each Group might be useful: e.g. SPAT - variety of Sun SOLARIS (SPARC), Linux-based NAS devices (total approx. 0.75PB), DAS devices, and desktop PCs running Windows/Linux.
What do others think about this? I can see that it could be useful, but that it must be kept up to date to remain so. Best, david
Feel free to disagree with my suggestions of course.
Rich
-----Original Message----- From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Colling Sent: 31 July 2013 10:15 To: physics-departmental-computing; Jackson, Caroline Subject: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Content Physics Computing Website
Dear All,
Something that has been on my (low priority) list of things to do for about a year is the restructuring of Physics Departmental Computing pages. Caroline Jackson has offered to do the work and she is waiting on me (and has been for the best part of a year). So now I am trying to think of useful content. so far I have:
- A list of group representatives - minutes of our meetings - Licensing information for things for which we have site/faculty licenses (often just a statement and link to the ICT shop) - Links to ICT general support pages.
What else would be useful?
Best, david
_______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing
_______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing
- Departmental printing facilities (e.g. Neal Powell in Blackett 206) for poster printing (maybe this is already listed on the Physics web pages?) This is already on the Facilities part of the website but I think it would be advantageous to duplicate the info in the Computing pages section.
Harry -----Original Message----- From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Colling Sent: 01 August 2013 12:24 To: physics-departmental-computing Subject: Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Content Physics Computing Website Hi Rich, Thanks for this.
A list of Departmental computing resources would be helpful, in particular things like: - storage space available/provided to staff / postdocs / students and how to apply for more storage (e.g. the 'H' drive)
The only problem that I can see is that I have to approve every increase in people's H drives regardless of whether I know them or not ;-)
- Departmental printing facilities (e.g. Neal Powell in Blackett 206) for poster printing (maybe this is already listed on the Physics web pages?) - any other Departmental IT resources (e.g. server rooms, printer rooms run by ICT, etc.)
Something possibly more contentious, but it would be useful (to me at least) to know if there are any other groups in the Department still running SOLARIS (SPARC) systems - so a brief summary of computing facilities in each Group might be useful: e.g. SPAT - variety of Sun SOLARIS (SPARC), Linux-based NAS devices (total approx. 0.75PB), DAS devices, and desktop PCs running Windows/Linux.
What do others think about this? I can see that it could be useful, but that it must be kept up to date to remain so. Best, david
Feel free to disagree with my suggestions of course.
Rich
-----Original Message----- From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Colling Sent: 31 July 2013 10:15 To: physics-departmental-computing; Jackson, Caroline Subject: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Content Physics Computing Website
Dear All,
Something that has been on my (low priority) list of things to do for about a year is the restructuring of Physics Departmental Computing pages. Caroline Jackson has offered to do the work and she is waiting on me (and has been for the best part of a year). So now I am trying to think of useful content. so far I have:
- A list of group representatives - minutes of our meetings - Licensing information for things for which we have site/faculty licenses (often just a statement and link to the ICT shop) - Links to ICT general support pages.
What else would be useful?
Best, david
_______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computi ng
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Some (brief) info about buying computers linking to ICT. Life is much, much easier for all concerned when users buy from HP or Apple - stuff comes with a 3 year warranty and if anything goes wrong (and stuff does go wrong!) then it's easy to get it fixed. Many people think that HP are expensive; that's because they look at retail prices instead of going to our portal site - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/spectrum/ict/hp/hp.asp - which has much better pricing (and better quality equipment) Steve -----Original Message----- From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Colling Sent: 31 July 2013 10:15 To: physics-departmental-computing; Jackson, Caroline Subject: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Content Physics Computing Website Dear All, Something that has been on my (low priority) list of things to do for about a year is the restructuring of Physics Departmental Computing pages. Caroline Jackson has offered to do the work and she is waiting on me (and has been for the best part of a year). So now I am trying to think of useful content. so far I have: - A list of group representatives - minutes of our meetings - Licensing information for things for which we have site/faculty licenses (often just a statement and link to the ICT shop) - Links to ICT general support pages. What else would be useful? Best, david _______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing
Thanks Steve, Good idea. Best, david On 01/08/13 09:20, Rochford, Steve wrote:
Some (brief) info about buying computers linking to ICT.
Life is much, much easier for all concerned when users buy from HP or Apple - stuff comes with a 3 year warranty and if anything goes wrong (and stuff does go wrong!) then it's easy to get it fixed.
Many people think that HP are expensive; that's because they look at retail prices instead of going to our portal site - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/spectrum/ict/hp/hp.asp - which has much better pricing (and better quality equipment)
Steve
-----Original Message----- From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Colling Sent: 31 July 2013 10:15 To: physics-departmental-computing; Jackson, Caroline Subject: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Content Physics Computing Website
Dear All,
Something that has been on my (low priority) list of things to do for about a year is the restructuring of Physics Departmental Computing pages. Caroline Jackson has offered to do the work and she is waiting on me (and has been for the best part of a year). So now I am trying to think of useful content. so far I have:
- A list of group representatives - minutes of our meetings - Licensing information for things for which we have site/faculty licenses (often just a statement and link to the ICT shop) - Links to ICT general support pages.
What else would be useful?
Best, david
_______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing
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Bantges, Richard J
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David Colling
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Rochford, Steve
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Vine, Harry A