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The Plasma Science and Fusion Centre Center and Information Services and Technology departments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an Internet2 university, are pleased to submit a proposal to participate in the PIC-SER Campus Trials.
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- enhance the levels of the considerable near real-time ad-hoc communication with remote colaboratorscollaborators, needed to support a fusion run
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4. A note of support from your organization's CIO or department head
- Please see attached letter from Miklos Porkolab, Director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
- Letter from Jerrold Grochow, VP Information Services & Technology, to follow under separate cover.
5. Equipment commitment, including a server running a modern Linux distribution and desktop or laptop machines for trial participants, running Windows 2K/XP or Mac OS X, each with headset
and microphone capability.
- A linux server running RHEL3 has been deployed with SER installed. Accounts for several users have been created and it is functioning. The SER version information is:
-version: ser 0.10.99-dev5 (i386/linux)
We are not currently using this server in a production environment, so configuration and or version changes can be easily done. We plan to issue approximately 15 accounts, some to people, and others to particular locations. There will be up to 50 clients on XP, Macintosh and linux. We are anxious to verify their interoperability.
6. Indication of willingness to share experiences with the Internet2 community.
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