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Finance Committee
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dear colleagues:
I am pleased to submit additional justification for the purchase of a Sun Fire V240 server to be used for teaching applications in the area of water resources.
The new server will replace my aging SUN server (6 years old). The following CIV E courses will be supported by the new server: CIV E 445 (Applied Hydrology), CIV E 530 (Open-channel Hydraulics), CIV E 632 (Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology), CIV E 633 (Environmental Hydrology), and CIV E 634 (Surface-water Hydrology).
Currently (Spring 2005) 45 students are registered in CIV E 445, 16 in CIV E 530, and 12 in CIV E 634, for a total of 73 students. The new equipment is needed to provide a dedicated web-server that can effectively run 29 web-based scripts that are used in these classes. These scripts are: onlinecomp.sdsu.edu (9 scripts), onlinehydro.sdsu.edu (5 scripts), onlinechannel.sdsu.edu (7 scripts), onlinetc.sdsu.edu (6 scripts), rational.sdsu.edu (1 script), and slopearea.sdsu.edu (1 script). Additionally, many other popular instructional webpages, including manningsn.sdsu.edu, manningsn2.sdsu.edu, milestones.sdsu.edu, and facets.sdsu.edu, will be supported. These scripts have been programmed in PHP, which runs with APACHE web-serving software on a SUN SPARC platform.
Attila, the primary college instructional server (7 years old) is overloaded. Serving these scripts from my own server slows down everybody's work, including students and faculty.
Sincerely yours,
Victor M. Ponce
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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