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GITC4111
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GITC 4111 PC Setup
The purpose of this document is to serve as a basis for discussion of the setup of the PCs in GITC 4111.
- General configuration and requirements
- The PCs in GITC 4111 will be used by the research group to form an Hadoop cluster
- All PCs will run Scientific Linux 7
- sudo rights given as needed
- All PCs will have access to MS Windows services
- All PCs wil be managed by Academic and Research Computing Systems (ARCS)
- Windows services
- A VM in the IST datacenter
- Provides Windows desktop on all PCs
- Managed by IST - patched, secure, backed up, automatic failover if hardware problem
- Software installed upon request
- Expandable
- VM in Virtual Box on each PC
- The faculty member in charge of the lab will have built-in administrator rights
- One student in the lab will have local administrator rights
- Administrator credentials should not be shared with anyone
- The local administrator's pre-set password cannot be modified
- A PC may be blocked from the NJIT network if there is a security breach on the PC
- If there are repeated security breaches, local administrator rights will be removed
- Dual boot
- The OS that is not in use does not get updates
- High maintenance - requires constant manual intervention
- Considered the least reliable means of providing both Linux and Windows functionality,/li>
- Storage
- Each PC has a 1-TB disk
- Note : option B.2 requires 0.5TB of the local disk
- The 1-TB disk is not backed up
- Each PC has access to a shared 500-GB space /afs/cad/research/ccs/chasewu/1/
- Disks installed in tiger.arcs and rabbit.arcs can be NFS-mounted on each PC
- Recommendation for Item B.
- One environment, not many that will all be different from each other
- No management by lab personnel
- Same environment on each PC
- PCs are not tied to a particular student
- Readily accommodates changing student population
These services can be provided in the following ways.
The Information Services & Technology (IST) policy on Windows PCs in research labs is :
ARCS will enforce security settings at the group policy level.
ARCS strongly recommends option B.1.