The 2011 Cascadia IT Conference, chaired by UW’s Lee Damon from Electrical Engineering and Anjanette Young from UW Libraries, will be held on March 11-12, at Hotel Deca in the University District. System, network, and database administrators and anyone else who provides computing services for Windows, Linux, or any operating system are the target audience for this regional conference.
Do you need to analyze UW financial data to answer multi-faceted questions? The UW Financial Activity Cube is a data analysis tool that allows quick and easy manipulation of complex data. Each cube contains data from one UW biennium that can be sliced and diced in many combinations, for example, to find out how much money was spent by fiscal year, by organization, by budget, by expense object, etc. Best of all, you don’t need to know about database structure or query languages to get your answers.
Starting March 1, the amount of disk space allocated to faculty and staff will be split out by service: UW Email—also known as UW Deskmail—(5 GB), Streaming Media (3 GB), Web Publishing (1 GB), and Linux Shell (1 GB). Shared accounts will have 1 GB space for each service, except for Streaming Media (3 GB). You will be able to manage your allocation and get additional space charged to a UW budget number beginning July 1, 2011 via the self-service Manage Your UW NetID Resources Web page. See details in IT Connect.
A sample of UW Seattle faculty, students, and TAs soon will be invited to share their technology needs and priorities in the 2011 Surveys on Teaching, Learning, and Research Technologies. If you receive the email from UW Information Technology, please take the 15-minute survey. Your input will help inform future decisions about technology tools and services.
UW managers and researchers can say goodbye to using paper to document budget reconciliation and review activities. MyFinancial.desktop has released tools enabling them to reconcile budget transactions online, add notes to posted transactions, sign-off on budgets, and easily track the reconciliation/review status for all their budgets in a new report. The latest release also includes functionality not possible with paper reports: direct links from posted eProcurement transactions to the e-invoice in Ariba. See Financial Desktop Initiative to learn more and register for training.
Question: When was the first issue of The Economist published? Answer: 1843, and a new online archive of this key global news source goes back that far. This valuable primary source of 19th-21st century economics, politics, and culture is brought to you by UW Libraries and is UW-restricted and fully searchable.
Students who use the UW Email (deskmail) service will need to choose a new email service (UW Windows Live, UW Google Apps, or a third-party service) before June 30, 2011—with a few exceptions. Details and steps to take are online.
Using Catalyst CommonView to keep everything you need for your class or project in one convenient location? You also can embed Twitter or Flickr feeds into your CommonView workspaces to display tweets or photos posted by colleagues, or links shared via Delicious. Learn how to add RSS feeds to your workspace.
Some UW researchers doing computational, data-intensive work are now plugged in to a high-performance computer cluster in the new UW Tower Data Center. Called Hyak (Chinook for “fast”), this shared supercomputer is made available through eScience Institute sponsorship of specific colleges, currently Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and the Environment. Phase one (one-third of Hyak’s capacity) was completed in August 2010. Additional sponsorships for the remaining capacity are available. This partnership with UW-IT to satisfy campus research computing requirements resulted in skill and technology transfer, reducing costs and increasing UW efficiency and productivity.
The UW CSE Distinguished Lecture series presents David Culler, UC Berkeley computer science chair, on designing a more scalable, flexible, and resilient electric power infrastructure. He calls for applying Internet design principles to the electric grid. The program airs February 26 at 8:00 p.m. on UWTV and is available for download.
