RE: a question

["West, Doug" <dwest@richmond.edu>]

Jerry,

Those computers do not fall under the guidelines for primary replacement,
and as such, there exist no on-going funding vehicle.  

However, if you will provide me with the following information, I will be
happy to explore our options completely.

* Number of systems that you are wanting to replace
* Typical configuration of the existing machines
* Minimum configuration needed for the new machines
* Must the new machines be "brand new", or would secondary machines that
meet the specs be sufficient

Additionally, the process that we followed to replace your lab machines
worked as well.  In that case, I had asked that you submit a formal request
to Ellen and cc me.  It is possible that we might have some year end funds
in this FY to target specific needs like this.  

Hope this helps! 


Doug West
Director of Telecom, Media
Support, and User Services
University of Richmond
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	gilfoyle [mailto:ggilfoyl@richmond.edu] 
Sent:	Monday, October 21, 2002 10:40 PM
To:	dwest@richmond.edu
Subject:	a question

Hi Doug,

   I have a question and I'm not sure if you are the right
person to ask, but I'll try anyway. I am considering asking the
Faculty Research Committee for money to replace some of the 
machines in our supercomputing cluster. These are computers 
that will be four years old at the beginning of next summer. 
They were purchased with US Department of Energy funds from our
grant and University funds in early 1999. Can these machines 
be replaced under the University's PC replacement plan? If 
they can be replaced, I would like to start the process going 
to do that.

Jerry

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Dr. Gerard P. Gilfoyle
Physics Department                e-mail: ggilfoyl@richmond.edu
University of Richmond, VA 23173  phone:  804-289-8255
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