In July, the UNT Computing Center installed a new IBM 9672/R51 mainframe computer. This system was acquired to support both the Administrative and Academic mainframe systems in separate partitions of the same machine. The new mainframe features IBM's latest technology. It uses redundant and easilly configurable CMOS processors to provide the same power as previous monolithic mainframe architectures. These new processors have resulted in a mainframe that is reduced in size and power consumption, thereby saving the University in the areas of space and electricity.
According to Coy Hoggard, Senior Director, Administrative Computing Services, the new machine has been christened Bubba Ray in honor of outgoing chair of the IRC Dr. Ray vonDran [he has accepted a position at Syracuse University]. Bubba Ray was a nickname vonDran adopted upon moving to Texas from New Jersey.
As of July 15, all Administrative mainframe processing was running on Bubba Ray. Academic users are slated to move to the new machine starting around August 14. A one or two day period will be required to make the transition from VM/XA to VM/ESA, the latest version of the VM/CMS system. We expect to provide a more efficient and powerful VM system for the Fall semester.
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