[42499] in Hotline Meeting
(3256) Re: Athena fees
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Welch)
Thu Mar 19 08:50:30 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 98 08:50:12 EST
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: Joe Welch <joewelch@MIT.EDU>
>To: joewelch@MIT.EDU, jvargas@MIT.EDU
>Subject: (3256) Re: Athena fees
>Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:17:38 EST
>From: Joseph M Welch <joewelch@MIT.EDU>
>
>Juan,
>
>This was in hotline. Can you please contact the customer with the cost to
>atheniz the system. After you have done that, I will arrange the site
>visit and
>do the athenization.
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
>
>Dear Athena -
>
>I have been discussing the upcoming roll out of Athena support for SGI O2
>workstations with Naomi Schmidt (forward of one of our correspondences
>below).
>She has offered the opportunity to Athenize one of my private O2
>workstations as a Beta site. Naomi has indicated that there will be no
>charge as a Beta user until the official release is made. If all goes well
>with the Beta install and with the custom configurations we will need to
>install to operate efficiently in my research lab, then I plan to athenize
>5 private O2 workstations.
>
>The machine I would like to Athenize is "parbat.mit.edu", and sits in room
>54-1017
>
>configuration:
>O2 R5000 200MHz, 1MB SC, CD ROM, 128MB Ram, 2GB hard drive
>Serial number: 08006905e2e9
>
>Please let me know if there are any problems, if not please let me know
>when you will be able to do the Athena install.
>
>Thanks
>
>Kelin
>
>ps. I will be out of town 3/20 - 3/30, so please coordinate with Linda
>Meinke (linda@ocean.mit.edu) and/or Kai McBride (kmc@techsquare.com) while
>I am away.
>
>
>>
>>>What I would like to do is to Athenize one of my O2 workstations
>>>right away to test how easily the local customization with serving
>>>homespaces and licensed software from a non-athena machine works.
>>>I wonder if Athena personnel *faculty liaison?* would be available
>>>to help us handle the necessary customization?
>>
>>What you should do is send email to hotline@mit.edu, telling them
>>that you and I had talked and that you are going to be a beta
>>tester of Athena on the O2. Tell them that you already have your
>>machine and they'll come over and do the athenization. (I think
>>you may need a floppy drive for this to start up the process - if
>>you don't have one, ask them what you can do.) Installation of
>>Athena on an O2 takes quite a while - somewhere between 1 and 3
>>hours. As for necessary customization after Athena is installed,
>>you should start by reading the Private Workstation Owners Guide
>>for general facts, even thought the specific commands are for the
>>Sun SPARC. Then you might want to contact faculty liaison Craig
>>Counterman (ccount@mit.edu), who has an O2 on his desk as his
>>primary production machine.
>>
>> Naomi
>
>************************************
>
>Kelin X. Whipple
>Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
>Rm 54-1016
>MIT
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>tel: 617-253-2578
>fax: 617-252-1800
>
>************************************
>
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Joseph Welch
Technical Assistant
Athena Deployment Team
MIT, Room E40-362
E-Mail joewelch@mit.edu
Phone (617)253-1530
