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This process involves choosing the new hardware, deploying it to the general use clusters and staff desktops as well as providing appropriate assistance to departments, labs, centers and individuals in dealing with their Athena systems reaching end of life in the current year.

Status

Inventory taking is in progress. We believe we know what the hardware recommendation will be and how many we will probably buy.

Unknowns:

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Public Cluster and Quickstation Renewal for FY09 are complete as of 31 Oct 2008

There should probably be outreach to IS&T and to Departments, Labs, and Centers
to encourage them to retire their old hardware with the current offering. The Hotline
team, not ISDA, owns this

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Deliverables / Activities

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• The recommendation will build on the previous year's, reflecting changing customer needs, changing hardware and vendor landscape.
• Balance new development work against the ideal of having the SAME recommendation both for Athena and the Administrative Desktop.
• Choose hardware parameters at the "sweet spot": Go for the highest incremental improvement before the cost jump starts to get big.
• Attempt to maximize the amount of time the recommendation will be able to be purchased through the year.

Special Tasks this year

• DONE Extra work to shrink the Athena-unique "Buy Athena" web pages by eliminating pages that describe services no longer offered, and help that is no longer needed. See Also: Revise Buy Athena online Documents.
• Harmonize inventory taking and hardware tracking processes.
• Athena Sun Desktops will be phased out in the coming year. See Also: Desktop Solaris Sunset