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Table of contents:
- What are "WAM" and "Glue"?
- What will happen to my WAM account?
- I don't have a WAM account. How does this affect me?
- How much storage will I have after the migration is
complete?
- What will happen to WAM labs?
- What happens to my WAM e-mail and Web pages?
Q: What are "WAM"and "Glue"?
A:
WAM and Glue were both created nearly 20 years ago as multi-platform
computing environments. WAM, which is an acronym for
"Workstations at Maryland,"
was originally created to facilitate student computing. Glue, which
originated within the School of Engineering, was designed to accommodate
the needs of faculty, staff, and students. Over time, the two
environments began to provide an increasingly similar set of
capabilities, which now include:
- a large number of applications, such as Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Star
Office, and much more
- an academic and research environment providing computational
resources such as development tools, databases, etc.
- a place to store files and access them from the network
- access to files using Windows, OS/X, and UNIX
- e-mail services
- web page publishing
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Q: What will happen to my WAM account?
A: Behind the scenes, all WAM resources will migrate to Glue.
For some, this will result in a brief outage, but the migration process
will not begin until the summer and all migrations will occur during
off hours. Our goal is to make the process as transparent as possible.
Advanced notification will be provided prior to the migration of your
files.
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Q: I don't have a WAM account. How does this affect me?
A: We will be making further enhancements to the University
computing environment in the future which cannot be implemented until
on the WAM/Glue consolidation completes. We will be sharing more
information about upcoming changes during the coming months.
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Q: How much storage will I have after the migration is complete?
A: You will have sufficient space to accommodate the needs
of both your WAM and Glue accounts.
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Q: What will happen to WAM labs?
A: The labs will likely be renamed at some point,
but they will provide the same functionality as they do now.
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Q: What happens to my WAM e-mail and Web pages?
A: WAM e-mail will be forwarded to the appropriate address and WAM
Web pages will continue to exist by their current name
(e.g., www.wam.umd.edu/~user). All references to
wam.umd.edu (e.g., e-mail addresses and Web pages) will continue
to exist for at least one year.
For assistance, please contact the
OIT Help Desk.
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