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The UCLA Academic Technology Center welcomes visitors from higher education and corporate institutions to learn about computing strategies at UCLA. If you would like to visit, please contact Marsha Smith, Manager of the UCLA ATC, or Chris Bernbrock, IBM Alliance Manager.
The UCLA Academic Technology Center showcases the synergy of wide-ranging academic and administrative computing solutions. A joint venture between UCLA and IBM, the UCLA Academic Technology Center presents a unique opportunity to discuss computing organizational strategies, technological directions, and migration issues and how they are being implemented on the UCLA campus. Sessions focus on real-world, multi-vendor solutions.
A strong central technology infrastructure enables the creative and sustained delivery of computing and information, which is crucial to the success of UCLA's academic program needs and administrative systems. The campus backbone network and on-campus supercomputing facilities are tangible embodiments of UCLA's continuing commitment to its technology infrastructure and to the support of a highly distributed computing environment.
UCLA's Campus Backbone Network is a "network of networks"; school and division departmental LANs connect to the backbone, which acts as UCLA's on-ramp to the Internet and the emerging National Information Superhighway. Currently, the backbone connects 16,000 workstations over 300 LANs spread throughout 85 buildings, supporting more than 21,000 users. ATM will be phased in beginning in 1994, advancing UCLA's sustainable networking environment.
There is an insatiable demand for computing cycles in many different scientific disciplines. UCLA is meeting this demand with on-campus mainframe and supercomputing resources which supplement resources available at the desktop and at national and international centers. UCLA's centrally managed resources, provided by the Office of Academic Computing, include an ES/9000 model 900 and the SPx/cluster complex, which includes a 36 node IBM POWERParallel system, and an RS/6000 cluster. Operating policies and procedures ensure that these resources are used optimally. With this computing power and the use of scientific visualization laboratories, UCLA faculty and students have reported dramatic improvements in their research and instructional achievements. UCLA provides supercomputing to all academic departments, including those which have not historically had access to large- scale computational resources. These supercomputing resources provide exciting new opportunities, such as using the power of local workstations in conjunction with the campus supercomputer to access U.S. Census data online with SAS and DB2.
In the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), faculty and students work in an AIX client/server environment which provides file system transparency, process transparency and AIX interoperability with UNIX systems in a heterogeneous computing environment. SEAS showcases a variety of computing solutions in a production environment.
UCLA's goal is to create a paperless environment and streamlined approval and post-audit processes through computing. Administrative Information Systems (AIS) is bringing online systems to administrative and academic departments for such administrative services as payroll, purchasing, and event planning. AIS' plan includes bringing new technological solutions to services for faculty and students in the form of touchtone class enrollment and grades, online financial aid applications, contracts and grants systems, and more.
Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the demand for access to worldwide computing and information resources and for local information online. UCLA has responded to this increased demand by making more online resources available to the campus community through the backbone network, such as the campus-wide information system, InfoUCLA. Supported through the Library and OAC's Microcomputer Support Office, InfoUCLA offers historically paper-based services online through clients like Mosaic and Gopher, making information such as the schedule of classes, phone book, and job listings easily accessible. Mosaic enables the addition of movies, sound, and graphics to text-based information delivery.
Each briefing includes a morning session on Networking at UCLA. The afternoon session AIX Client/Server Computing is available for each date; alternate afternoon sessions on Administrative Client/Server Applications and Migrating to Parallel Computing are available on the dates specified. Briefings will be offered on the following dates:
January 25, Wednesday
February 8, Wednesday
February 15, Wednesday
March 7, Tuesday
March 22, Wednesday
April 12, Wednesday
April 19, Wednesday
May 9, Tuesday
May 24, Wednesday
June 6, Tuesday
June 21, Wednesday
March 7, Tuesday
May 9, Tuesday
June 21, Wednesday
February 8, Wednesday
March 22, Wednesday
April 12, Wednesday
May 24, Wednesday
