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Here are the functions the various OIT systems perform:
- TerpConnect - The TerpConnect system (powered by Glue)
provides a Unix shell account with full
Internet access for any faculty, staff or student who wishes one. It provides
a Unix command shell environment, e-mail, programming and various software
packages. Some software licensed by individual departments and
available on the TerpConnect system is only available in certain computer labs,
on certain servers, or to users in specific groups. See your instructor or
advisor to get any special permissions you may need.
- Deans - The Deans system (part of the larger Glue system) is
provided for departmental Deans and other authorized individuals who provide
administrative support to the department. The Deans system hosts the
Advise system, which is used for student advising by departments.
Additionally, the Deans account provides all the programs and services that
the Glue system provides, except for those restricted by lab, server or group.
- GRACE - The new cluster is named the Glue Research and
Academic Computing Environment (GRACE). A subset of the Glue system, the GRACE
environment is designed for researchers and students in specific classes to
use for their work. Only those Glue IDs which have been specifically
authorized are allowed to login, so there is less competition for the system
resources. The course instructor handles all issues with student's access; if
a student can't login to GRACE, they need to alert their instructor.
- There are four machines, two are SPARC
architecture running Solaris, (which have four 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi
processors and 16G memory), and the other two are AMD64 running Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, with four 2.4 GHz Opteron processors and 16G memory). There
is also a fifth machine specifically for Oracle database use.
- For more specific information relating to
GRACE, please see:
http://www.grace.umd.edu/
- Directory Services - All faculty, staff and students (as
well as sponsored affiliates) have records in the directory, which contain the
standard office and telephone contact information, as well as userid and
password information. Applications are increasingly being integrated with
directory services; currently the Oracle Calendar calendaring service, TerpConnect and
Glue, BlackBoard, ARES, and online timesheets are a few that reference the
directory server for authentication. The protocol OIT uses for their
Directory Service is LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
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