Computer News No. 123 Sep.-Oct. 2006
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Computer News No. 123 Sep.-Oct. 2006 |
Upgrade of Systems for Supporting Students
1. Introduction
To cope with increasing demand of users accessing the web-based student related applications for HKU members and applicants seeking admission to the University, the computing servers for the Student Connect and Extranet servers are to be upgraded with new computer servers over the last weekend in October 2006.2. Upgrade of Student Connect & Extranet servers
The new servers will support the following systems:
- Student Connect system supports services related to the studies of the students, including master registration to study at the University, student course selection, hall application, application for transcript/testimonial.
- Research postgraduate and taught postgraduate on-line application system.
- Those services running in the original Extranet system which is the computer system supporting online application accessed from Extranet (as opposed to Intranet). The services include the JUPAS (Joint University Programmes Admissions System) online admission, Netmatch system of the Careers Education and Placement Centre for matching jobs between potential employers and employees, online applications for alumni (e.g. Online Alumni Directory), E-voting system of the Convocation, EC-survey system of the Computer Centre for on-line surveys, Publication Search System for searching for research projects and publications, etc.
The newly installed servers are integrated into a new high-availability system. The new system consists of a pair of IBM p550 servers, each with 4 CPUs, 16GB memory, attached to the HP XP10000 SAN storage sub-system. The processing power of new system is about 2 times faster than the existing Student Connect system and 6 times faster than the existing Extranet system.
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