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The School of Electrical Engineering has decided to replace its existing VAX 11/780s (ec, ed and eg) with something more technologically advanced. EE has purchased a Sun SPARCserver 10 Model 54 with 288 MB RAM and 4.0 GB disk. This time-sharing compute-server will be available for use by Electrical Engineering faculty, staff and graduate students; it will not be a server for Sun workstations. The new machine's name is albrecht.
Final shutdown of the VAXes depends, in large part, on the pace at which we can get accounts, ports, printers, and other devices moved to other machines. The SPARCserver arrived in May; migration off the VAXes will begin in June. We would like the VAXes shut down by the end of this fiscal year (June 30), and anticipate having the new SPARCserver fully operational by Fall 1993.
All EE graduate students, faculty and staff members who have valid accounts on one of the VAXes will get an account on the new machine. If you had an active ec, ed or eg port in your office, it will be replaced with an annex port, similar to the ones in the EE terminal rooms.
If you have questions about the new SPARCserver 10/54, send e- mail to esite.
A Note of Importance about the New Machine: it runs a different operating system than the old Suns. Although it is still UNIX, the new machine runs SunOS 5.x (Solaris 2.x) rather than the SunOS 4.1.x running on most of the other Suns in EE. Documentation on converting from SunOS to Solaris is available from your site specialist. For more information please read the article on page 4, Migrating To Solaris.
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