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

9714628 Heimbach这笔赠款将提供资金，用于升级北卡罗来纳大学大气科学系由裁研所支持的网络。新的软件、扩展的产品和越来越多的应用已使现有系统的一部分过时。目前，该部门有四个Sun工作站。现有的服务器(一台Sun LX)将降级，并将增加一台新的服务器，一台Sun Ultra 1-170e以及一些外围设备。该部门将继续流行的PC-McIDAS，用高端奔腾取代现有的两台PC，以实现PC-McIDAS的升级，这是目前的PC无法实现的。这一扩大将使裁研所的服务得到更广泛的传播，这些服务已经对各专业的教育经历、研究和参加该部支助课程的学生产生了深远的益处。裁研所的大部分产品都受到裁研所产品的影响，并专门针对裁研所的应用开发了三门新课程。正在对一年级的大气科学课程进行重组，以纳入跨学科的部分。本课程的多学科方面将由拟议的升级提供支持。这项设备升级是必要的，以继续该部门在主要课程和服务课程中的严格指导，以及为需要业务气象数据的研究做出贡献。

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.