Upgrading the University of North Carolina, Asheville's, UNIX-based UNIDATA Support

小行星9714628 这笔赠款将为北卡罗来纳州大学大气科学系的升级提供资金。 新的软件、扩大的产品和越来越多的应用程序已使现有系统的一部分过时。 目前，该部门有四个Sun工作站。 现有服务器（Sun LX）将降级，并将添加一台新服务器（Sun Ultra 1- 170 E沿着一些外围设备）。 该署将继续使用广受欢迎的PC-McIDAS，以高端奔腾电脑取代现有的两台PC，使PC-McIDAS能够升级，这是目前PC无法实现的。 这一扩展将使贸发协的服务得到更广泛的传播，这些服务已经对专业人员的教育经验、研究和参加该部支助课程的人大有益处。 新闻部提供的大多数课程都受到了UNIDATA产品的影响，并专门针对UNIDATA应用程序开发了三门新课程。 正在重新安排一门大一的大气科学课程，以纳入跨学科内容。 这一课程的多学科方面将得到拟议的升级的支持。 这次设备升级是必不可少的，以继续该部门在主要和服务课程中的严格教学，以及有助于需要业务气象数据的研究。

9714628 Heimbach This grant will provide funding to upgrade the University of North Carolina's Department of Atmospheric Sciences UNIDATA-supported network. New software, expanded products and increasing applications have rendered part of the present system obsolete. Presently the department has four Sun workstations. The existing server (a Sun LX) will be downgraded and a new server, a Sun Ultra 1-170E along with some peripherals, will be added. The department will continue the popular PC-McIDAS by replacing the existing two PCs with high-end Pentiums to allow PC-McIDAS upgrades which are not possible with the current PCs. This expansion will allow a wider dissemination of the UNIDATA services which have already been profoundly beneficial to the educational experiences of the majors, to research and to those enrolled in the department's support courses. A majority of the department's offerings have been impacted by the UNIDATA products and three new courses have been developed which are specifically directed at UNIDATA applications. A freshman-level atmospheric sciences course is being reorganized to include an interdisciplinary component. The multidisciplinary aspects of this course will be supported by the proposed upgrade. This equipment upgrading is essential to continue the department's rigorous instruction in both major and service courses, as well as to contribute to research which requires operational meteorological data.