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1) Confirm support (draft)
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Chemistry IT
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to do or figure out
Where in our 248 Baker Lab server farm? CPU and UPS. Power, switch/ networking.
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- System is AD-based Windows using group's instrument account. And VNC remote access tool uses AD group to enable access by NetID, so confirm that still also works with any changes made to restricting Windows log-on.
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Chen Group to do or figure out
Confirm no storage backup since can rerun computations potentially lost. If hard drive breas, Chemistry IT can re-install and configure OS and applications. But all group data and results will be lost.
Does the analogy of using the server as a "toaster" resonate and work? The only time a failure of the server impacts work is when a job is being calculated. Once the data has been analyzed, the server should no longer have a copy of the original data analysed, nor the results. Those are like the bread, in a toaster.
Chemistry IT's
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select roles and responsibilities
- Be responsive and respectful of requests from the Chen group, including requests for software installations. Includes:
- Installing or removing applications, configuring CPU threading.
- Conduct regular maintenance by Chemistry IT
- At least every 3 months, require work requires the system to be taken off-line. Usually able to accomplish updates within a morning. Scheduled for every 3 months for a specific place-holder date and reminders that all jobs will be stopped are sent 2 weeks, then 1 week, then 1 day before the maintenance. On day-of work, any remaining jobs are terminated by Chemistry IT so they can accomplish the required work.
- Chemistry IT installs and maintains the OS and application updates and upgrades. Configures and maintains remote access technology.
Chen group
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's select roles and responsibilities
- Be responsive and respectful of requests from Chemistry IT, including planning around maintenance or emergency technical work.
- Understand that access will require using a VPN if accessing the server from personal computers, or from eduroam/ RedRover, or from home.
- VPN is not required if server is accessed from current group's computational computers.
- Understand server is for processing data, not for on-going storage of data or results. Maintain data hygiene on server's storage drive to ensure that:
- Server never has collected data that is not primarily available elsewhere. Once data has been analyzed, that data should be deleted from the server.
- Group members do not use the server for long-term storage of results. Results should be copied elsewhere (example: Group's file share) and then deleted from the server.
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