[35310] in Hotline Meeting
athenization questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
Thu Oct 17 12:26:00 1996
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:26:00 -0500
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: burke@MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
fyi, jerry
>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 12:01:36 EST
>From: "DAVID ROVNYAK,NW14-4119,X2-1690" <rovnyak@ccnmr.mit.edu>
>To: net-help@MIT.EDU
>Cc: bennati@ccnmr.mit.edu
>Subject: athenization questions
>
>
> My name is David Rovnyak; I work for Bob Griffin in the
>chemistry dept. and we are considering setting up an athenized workstation
>in our lab to take advantage of the athena computing environment.
>We have spoken with Gary Weston who referred several of our questions
>to you.
>
> First, can you tell us exactlywhat long-term fees wil
>be billed to us? Are there licensing and any other maintencance
>fees? How much are they, annually, and do you expect these costs
>to rise or stay the same in the near future? What is covered
>in the $680 setup cost, for example. Does that include some
>licensing payments?
>
> Second, we have been given the impression that DEC Alphas
>are not recommended for athenization. Is this still true?
>
> Third, we would like to limit access to our machine
>as we would like it to be available to our lab-members for
>computations, data analysis and so forth. We do not want anyone
>with an athena account simply telnetting to our workstation.
>How would we block unwanted logins? Perhaps this is already
>built-in to athena since it seems that telnet is only permitted
>by "athena.dialup.mit.edu" but we would like some assurance one
>way or the other.
>
> Finally, we own already an old Sun4 and an old Sun5,
>is there a complete list of athena-compatible machines against
>which we could compare our existing available workstations?
>
>Many thanks,
>DAvid
>
