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Benchmarks - May, 2013

Campus Computing News

Student E-mail Upgrade Planned

By Dr. Philip Baczewski, Senior Director of Academic Computing and User Services and Deputy Chief Information Officer for University Information Technology

E-mail accounts on the UNT student e-mail service – EagleConnect -- will be upgraded sometime this summer to provide improved functionality and support for new services, which will be available after the upgrades this summer. The upgrade was originally scheduled to start May 19, however, we were recently notified by Microsoft that the upgrade cannot occur until early to midsummer. New schedule information will be communicated as soon as it is available.

Faculty: Before you Leave for the Summer...

By Dr. Philip Baczewski, Senior Director of Academic Computing and User Services and Deputy Chief Information Officer for University Information Technology

With the successful completion of the Spring semester we can all look forward to various activities this summer. Faculty members may have the opportunity to travel and pursue research or other academic activities. If you fall into this category and will need to have access to research software while you are off campus, Academic Computing and User Services may be able to help.

CLEAR Faculty Tip Sheet: Blackboard Learn’s Test Availability

By Jane Himmel, Associate Director, CLEAR

The attached CLEAR Faculty Tip Sheet provides an overview of the Test Availability options you have when adding a test to your course along with our best recommendations for making wise selections.

Summer Hours

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor

Summer is here, at least as far as the UNT schedule of classes is concerned. Summer 2013 consists of six sessions and not all campus facilities are open during all the sessions.*

By the Numbers

Down the Corridor of Years

1991 -- The General Access Lab program came into effect fall of 1991. The labs in the program in 1991 were: ACS (ISB 110), Chilton (116 [Adaptive lab] & 255, College of Arts and Sciences (GAB 330 & 550), College of Business (BA 330 & 550), College of Education (Matthews 309), SLIS (ISB 205A), Willis Library (134), Wooten Hall (120). Music 1007 and Terrill 247 added in 1992.
1991 -- Solbourne 5E/902 purchased and installed for academic Unix support. It was configured as a two processor system capable of 60 MIPS and 8 double-precision MFLOPS. It had 64 MB of main memory and 1.7 GB of disk storage.
1992 -- Two additional RISC processors added to the academic Solbourne, doubling its CPU capacity and tripling its memory.
1992 -- A new IBM ES 9000, model 440 administrative mainframe installed. This doubled the administrative processor speed (to 30 MIPS) and increased memory to 128 megabytes. MVS/ESA installed on the administrative mainframe.

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