Penn State Mark ASET Annual Report 2005 Information Technology Services

By the Numbers

How many e-mail transactions occur each day? How many people have Personal Web pages? How many people use Penn State dial-up services? The table below provides an at-a-glance view for ASET's wide-range of services. For project details, refer to the New, Improved, and Continued Services and/or the Project/Initiative Hightlights sections of this report.
ServiceStats
Access Accounts approx. 110,000 at any given time
Short Term Access Accounts (STAAs): 7,619
Friends of Penn State (FPS) Accounts Total: 312,000
Migrated: 15,769
Directory Services 135,000 entries
168,000 queries/day
Calendering via Oracle Collaboration Suite Calendar 1900 customers
300 resources
43 groups
VPN Connections
(from a non-Penn State network)
1,004 connections/day
Dial-up Connections an average of 15,987 connections/day
average length of call is 57 minutes
Web Space Directories Personal: 44,607
Departmental: 147
Course: 722
Clubs: 777
Hits to www.psu.edu 2.2 million/day
E-mail transactions 3.5 million/day
POP: 65/day; 75,888/week
KPOP: 49,150/day; 63,660/week
WebMail: 49,100/day; 63,600/week
IMAP: 65/day; 65/week
E-mail Spam Filtering 1 - 4 million spam messages/day
Virtual Hosts
A virtual host is a computer which can be setup to respond to multiple IP addresses and provide various services, typically different Web services, on each. Each IP address, which usually has its own hostname, operates as if it is a separate host on a separate machine, although it is really the same host. For example, a Penn State department can choose to have departmental Web space at http://www.psu.edu/some_dept/ and request the virtual host http://www.some_dept.psu.edu/. Requests for virtual hosts are sent and billed through Entrepreneurial Services in CSS and ASET sets up the virtual host.
39 non-ITS, non-project
17 ITS and project (staff.its. internal Web site, Napster, Search Engine, etc.)
Penn State Search Engine
(Google Search Appliance)
Total indexed documents: 900,000
Average search queries/day: 5,000 - 25,000
File Backups 103TB backed up/archived data stored
26 of the 103TB are PASS backups
1,400 computers backup/month
PASS Home Directories 149,818
Total storage capacity for PASS increased to 14.7TB
Napster Number of songs/day served via cache server: 250,000
Lion-XL
a 1.3 teraflop machine, consists of a total of 176 Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers, each configured with dual Intel processors, 4GB of memory and a 36GB Ultra320 15K revolutions per minute (rpm) SCSI drive. The first subset of Lion-XL, 128 dual 2.4GHz CPU nodes, are connected with a Quadrics QsNet Elan3 high performance network.
delivered 2,682,358 million CPU hours
Jobs run: 146,275
Ranked seventy-third on Top 500 Supercomputers list
Lion-XM
consists of 128 Dell PowerEdge 1750s, each configured with dual 3.06 Intel Xeon processors, 4GB of memory and a 36GB Ultra320 15K rpm SCSI drive.
delivered 2,026,381 CPU hours
Jobs run: 478,990
Lion-XO
consists of 80 dual 2.4GHz Sun SunFire V20z servers, each with 8GB of ECC RAM and 73GB of SCSI disk
Jobs run: 130,167
delivered 724,536 CPU hours
Unisys System
32 Intel 64-bit Itanium2 processors provide access to large amounts of shared and high bandwidth memory. The centerpiece of the installation consists of a Unisys ES7000/430 with two domains of 16 Itanium2 processors at 1.5GHz each.
Since being online: delivered 92,786 CPU hours
Programs run: 6,397

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