The new datalogger and weather station is now installed on the roof of Murdough. We are now working on making the data available for public viewing. Here’s a quick video of the setup on the roof:
Thayer School of Engineering Weather Station and Photovoltaic Array from Thayer School on Vimeo.
Stay tuned for future updates on viewing the data.
In between keeping all things computing running at Thayer, we always have several projects in the works. Here’s a quick overview of projects we’re currently working on or planning. In no particular order…
Dartmouth’s Council on Computing has constituted a task force to determine Dartmouth’s requirements for future email and collaboration tools. Thayer School’s Director of Computing Services is on the task force and seeks your thoughts on the subject.
We are a “belt and suspenders” computing staff. To [snip...]
Most, if not all, of the Thayer-based readers of this blog will have used one of the print release stations spread through our building. Each release station requires a computer to run the release software on. The computers at the release stations are not new, but still quite beefy (and power hungry at ~70 watts) for the job they have to do.
Enter the DecTOP. The DecTOP is relatively old technology, designed by AMD years ago, with a 366 MHz AMD [snip...]
When I left you in my last post on saving energy in the computer labs, I had four machines suspending in the M210 computer lab. There were mixed results during the test run. The older, Dell Dimension 4600 computers went to sleep and woke back up without a problem, however the newer Dell Optiplex 745 computers failed to come out of suspend approximately 30% of the time. Try as I might, updating drivers and playing with BIOS and power settings, I was unable to [snip...]
There is lots of talk about energy around Thayer School. We think a lot about it Computing Services too. Computers and Printers at Thayer are a significant source of electricity and resource consumption. Jordan has been working at reducing electricity use in the Windows lab (see his recent blog post here).
I’ve recently started looking at printer and copier use. I’ve only gathered preliminary data so [snip...]
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