Computing in the Bacteriology Department

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Computing in the Bacteriology Department Network
Mail Storage Research (and Admin.)
Computing Instructional Technology
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Location Past, Present, Future
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CURRENT NETWORK DOIT owns and supervises our
network hardware and switches. Within Old
Biochemistry 1 Gb/sec in the walls switches are
mostly 10 Mb/sec, some 100 Mb/sec, single
Gb/sec. We have a collaborative mode of
operation in which our IT administrator, Janet
Newlands, is an Authorized Agent or
Administrative Extension of DOIT. (Involves
class, largely to learn the Cisco switch
details). Wireless coverage in most of
building. All our network traffic through Med.
Sciences node. Firewall administered by Janet
also (quite conservative).
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CURRENT eMAIL
All students are on Wiscmail. Most faculty and
staff are on the Groupwise server gwmadison
database server via Bascom Hall. Why? Many
people in department like the home
grown feeling of having one departmental go-to
person in charge of our mail system. More
stringent SPAM control including blacklisting of
some addresses. Experience of viruses coming via
Wiscmail screened out by Groupwise.
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CURRENT BACKUP
Bucky Backup 300 computers, only approx. 32
backed up, 1,000/month for department. Plan
recently voted on Departmental SNAP servers
(Adaptec) 2 identical 3 Terabyte RAID 5
systems, one stored in our bldg, one stored at
DOIT. Why? Lower cost, higher control.
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RESEARCH COMPUTING
Support of research equipment necessitates
many operating systems.
Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, (Vista) Mac all flavors
back to OS9 IBM OS2 Linux Red Hat, Ubuntu,
Susc Irix
Systems Administration is largely Janet, with
additional individual P.I. support of unix
(read, me).
No centralized research computing (e.g.
DOIT). Several departmental computers and
printers.
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ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING 8 cloned then
customized Windows machines and 2 Macs in the
Bact front office. Shared file systems using the
Office Shared software
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INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Old Biochemistry
Portable projectors only. On-line microbiology
text (Tim Paustian, Ken Todar) Molecular
modeling class taught in Biotech
center. Physical models generated on Z-corp
printer (NSF grant, Nelson,Wolf, Phillips,
Butcher, Forest).
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vs. Microbiology
Symposium Center Classrooms 190 seats -- 2
projectors, camera recording, wireless 10040
seats -- projector, wireless So far no student
input electronically Molecular Modeling
classroom -- (ILM) 20 student spots (Macintosh
computers) 1 instructor (SGI for hardward
stereo) CyVIZ 3-D projectors and silver
screen Bioinformatics Server for undergraduate
labs (ILM)