Meeting date:  July 12, 2001 - 1:30

Bill Bosler, OIT manager, Project Planning and Administration conducted the
meeting.  The agenda for the meeting was as follows:

1.  OIT is seeking concurrence that it understands the problems as
presented.
        Bill described the problem as being a large cloud around
institutional
file space.  Problems in the cloud included H and I drive reliability,
corruption of data, slow access, slow logon, network, file sharing.  He
explained that OIT had looked at many solutions to institutional file space
but none addressed the cloud.  It was necessary to reduce the complexity
first in order to see what problems still existed with institutional file
space.  This was the reason Bill has been assigned to the project so that
the multiple projects that must go on are managed.

2.  OIT would like to present for approval an approach for solving these
problems.

        Bill identified several areas where there were things that could be
done
to solve the known problems in the cloud, such as improvements to the
network.  Bill was asked, what is meant by improvements for the network and
it was noted that the network performance almost stopped when students are
very active.  Don Wallquist responded that approval to upgrade ResNet had
been received.  The network changes to ResNet will "indirectly" affect the
response to other portions of the network, but we can't estimate what they
would be -- the affects would not be measurable since they would be the
"absence" of additional network traffic caused by problems on ResNet.

        Bill described some testing that has been happening.  In the School
of
Architecture a test was done in the cluster to see if access to AFS could
be improved.  Alan Defrees was able to go from a 7 minute logon to just
over a minute and a half.  In addition, he was able to directly access an
autocad file without it being corrupted instead of first making a copy.

        Bill was asked about file sharing and if someone was working on
that.  He
responded that Kevin Rowland is still concentrating on finding solutions
for institutional file space.

        Bill stated our next steps would be to clearly define cloud projects
and
expected dates.

3.  OIT is seeking input on any additional problems not yet identified.

        Other problems noted were capacity - storage and the amount
available.
Don Wallquist and Tom Laughner explained, they normally go into a new
school year with about 35% space available, however this year we currently
have only 25% space available.  OIT will be purchasing additional space,
but it will only be at the level for which they have been funded.  In
addition, there were two other important constraints mentioned. Physical
space (for more equipment) and available electrical service to the CCMB
building -- neither of which will be available for some time.

        Independent classroom machine - there is a need to be able to run a
few
applications such as PowerPoint on the computers in DeBartolo when the
network is down.