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The forecast for today is SUNny and Crunchy (new machines--purchased)

ECN recently added three Gould PN 9080 systems to the network, machines ca, ga and mg. These systems provide much improved "number-crunching" capabilities, over the VAX machines. Along with the Gould systems, several Sun Microsystem workstations were installed. These Sun systems were intended as a test to determine the role of the workstations in the engineering schools at Purdue. This pilot study has gone very well and the Dean of Engineering has approved funds for the purchase of several more Sun workstations and servers.

Orders are being processed for eight "file server" nodes, and 59 diskless workstations. The file servers will be located: 1 in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, 1 in Civil Engineering, 2 in Mechanical Engineering, 2 in Electrical Engineering, and 2 in Grissom Hall (to serve workstations in, Industrial Engineering, Astronautics and Aeronautical Engineering, and Nuclear Engineering). The diskless workstations will be distributed as shown below:

          SCHOOL          WORKSTATIONS
          _
          A&AE            6
          Industrial      9
          Nuclear         2
          Civil           10
          Chemical        7
          Materials       2
          Electrical      13
          Mechanical      10

Except for four of the file servers, we expect these systems to begin arriving in late May or June. They should be installed and on-line by the middle of summer; available for various research and teaching activities. Remaining servers should arrive in August.

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