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If you own and use a single Unix or Windows workstation, the effort required for system administration (maintenance, security, software licensing, and user support) is usually not an unreasonable burden. But if you have a group of systems, this can drain precious resources away from your research or other duties.
NACS Distributed Computing Support (DCS) now [...]
NACS is happy to introduce the newest member of the Distributed Computing Support group, Assistant Manager Francisco Lopez.
Francisco is a double graduate of UC Berkeley. He received an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a graduate degree from the Haas School of Business. Francisco was a member of the technical staff at [...]
NACS Distributed Computing Support (DCS) provides a full range of UNIX system administration services for UCI research and other computing environments on a contract basis.
DCS staff members provide direct Unix system administration services for some computer systems. They also serve as consultants to departmental system administrators.
DCS staff keep abreast of emerging applications and system technologies [...]
For over 10 years NACS Distributed Computing Support (DCS) Group has provided professional system administration services to the UCI campus for UNIX (and to a lesser extent Windows).
Computer system administration generally refers to the maintenance of a reliable and secure computing environment. DCS has recruited, trained, and maintained a dedicated support staff alleviating individuals and [...]
NACS Distributed Computing Support has developed software to improve campus computer security.
In the same way a night watchman proceeds through a building, turning doorknobs to check that they’re locked, hackers scan the network looking for open ports on computers. The new NACS system collects and analyzes information from UCI Unix and Linux computers to check for activity [...]
NACS/DCS provides Unix and Linux system administration services to the campus on a contractual basis. DCS uses a Unix/Linux system administration technique called “autoinstalling” to help keep quality high and costs low relative to the industry norm.
While autoinstalling requires system administrators to spend a little more time planning and executing initial system configuration, many later [...]