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FY11 Timeline
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November 2010 December 2010
OIT at the Sustainability Fair: OIT showcases its most
notable contributions to the campus-wide green initiatives
at Princeton University’s Sustainability Open House.
The sustainability and cost savings benefits of the server
virtualization service, the PC power management program,
and the Print-less campaign, which encourages less printing
at public computing clusters, are among the technology
initiatives highlighted at the event.
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OIT is on hand at the Sustainability Fair to share information about
sustainability initiatives that can be achieved through technology
OIT begins a University-wide laptop encryption
effort and encrypts all Windows laptops within OIT. The
encryption of OIT laptops kicks off a data security initiative
that encourages University departments to install data
encryption software on their laptop computers. A formal
procedure for responding to potential data breach situations
is also developed as part of this data security initiative.
The implementation of Oracle Identity
Management (OIM) account provisioning and
deprovisioning begins and further enhances data security
at Princeton. When fully implemented, the OIM system will
better secure Princeton University accounts through timely
account creation and closure. Plans are to activate the system
in the fall of 2011.
OIT and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science
and Engineering (PICSciE) work together to gather the
funds needed to purchase a replacement for the older
half of the Della Beowulf cluster. The new cluster
provides 768 cores and 3 TB of RAM and increases the peak
computational performance from 1.9 teraflops to 8 teraflops.
The new cluster also conserves energy with a decrease in
power utilization by a factor of five.
A new smartphone mobile application, iPrinceton,
launches and provides the campus community with
mobile access to information about the University, including
Princeton news, events, athletic news and schedules, course
offerings, the library catalog, lectures, an interactive campus
map, and more.
The app is free and available for iPhone,
iPad, Blackberry and Android devices. A
web version is also available for viewing
from any web-capable smart phone.
In FY11, the iPrinceton mobile app is
downloaded to nearly 10,500 devices.
OIT completes the project to move aging database
servers to new, less-expensive “commodity”
hardware. This migration not only saves money, but
provides a “greener,” more power-efficient solution. In
addition, with new hardware and an upgraded Linux
operating system, many jobs run in half the time or less,
backups require much less time, and system outages for
performing regularly scheduled maintenance and upgrades
are shorter.
Pictured are a number of the OIT staff who helped complete the
database migration project ahead of schedule.
To continue to improve cellular telephone service on
campus, OIT negotiates the installation of upgraded
cellular equipment at multiple locations on
campus. In addition, OIT expands the installation of internal
building equipment to improve cellular telephone coverage in
hard-to-reach locations inside buildings.
The Lunch ‘n Learn presentation “Arts Libraries on
the Edge: Hey, where do I shelve this?” explores
the challenges created by modes of media delivery that are
outside traditional library holdings at Princeton. Darwin Scott
is joined by librarians Sandy Brooke (Marquand Library of
Art and Archeology) and Hannah Bennett (Architecture
Library), to discuss their respective collections.