01/30/2008

The scheduled power outage announced below did not happen.

We are waiting to here when it will happen.

ECES TO BE UPGRADED 02/01 - 02/02

ECES and all labs will be down for a scheduled upgrade from 9pm Friday, 02/01 until 5pm Saturday, 02/02.

01/13/2008

Happy New Year and Welcome Back for Spring 2008!

We have some exciting (good) things coming up for ECES and the ECE Labs in the first month of the new semester.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

You may not know this, but the Engineering Center has been running out of electricity. You can see how that would be a bad thing for our department in particular.

Fortunately, the good folks in the Dean's office, CU Facilities, and a lot of hardworking contractors have been working to bring us more of those electrons we all enjoy.

Unfortunately, this means that most of the Engineering Center will be without power at unpredictable intervals on SATURDAY, JANUARY 19.

To protect our sensitive computer equipment from damage due to power loss/fluctuation, all of the Electrical and Computer Engineering servers will be SHUTDOWN from Friday evening until early Sunday morning.

Additionally, all of the computers in the ECE Undergraduate Labs and SRC will be turned off on Friday night.

This means FROM FRIDAY, 01/18, in the PM to SUNDAY, 01/20, in the AM:

• DO NOT EXPECT TO WORK IN AN ECE LAB ON SATURDAY 01/19.
• Do not try to use SAC to change your eces password or create your eces account on Saturday.
• The ECE web site and most ECE course web sites will be down for most of the weekend.
• Most of your ECE professors will not have access to e-mail from Friday night until Saturday evening or Sunday morning.

NEW COMPUTERS:

If a fresh supply of electrons isn't enough to get you excited about the semester, how about fresh new computers.

We recently purchased two new Dell servers and a new Janus raid system to upgrade eces.

This new system should improve performance and file access times in all of the ECE Undergraduate labs as well as provide increased stability -- including a fancy new failover system that will minimize any downtime due to hardware failure.

The new eces isn't quite ready to take over, but we're expecting to make the switch early in the semester.

We're also expecting to see new computers for the SRC sometime in the Spring.

Older ECES News

The ECES Student Server is a Unix computer owned and operated by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The ECES Student Server is generally accessed in two ways:

As a Windows Server From Within ECE Computer Labs
ECES is the Primary Domain Controller for the Windows 2000 computers in the ECE computer labs. This means it validates logins and passwords to allow users to login to the client computers in the labs, and it hosts users' home directories, the Z: drive, on the client computers.

As a Unix Server From Anywhere
ECES is accessible from anywhere on the internet, including the ECE computer labs, as eces.colorado.edu. As a Unix server, eces.colorado.edu is accessilbe via SSH. File transfers can be performed via SCP. E-mail services are available via IMAP SSL and POP SSL or on the web at eces.colorado.edu/webmail. And, as evidenced by this page, you can access ECES web pages at eces.colorado.edu.

Anyone currently registered for a course which requires use of an ECE computer lab must obtain an ECES account.

An ECES account login and password is required to access any computer in an ECE computer lab. Your ECES account will also provide you with a place to store data while working in the ECE computer labs and will provide you with access to this data from inside and outside of the labs.

An ECES account login and password is also required to access the computers in the ECE Student Resource Center.

University of Colorado Undergraduates majoring in ECE, graduate students in the ECE Department, and ECE Faculty are all elligible to maintain an account on the ECES Student Server for the duration of their affiliation with the department.

Additionally, any students registered for a CU or CU Continuing Education course requiring them to use an ECE computer lab are eligible to maintain an account on the ECES Student Server for the durration of their enrollment in that course.

If you are an ECE undergraduate or graduate student or are currently registered for a course which uses an ECE computer lab, please refer to the ECES Policies page and the Getting Started page to find out about creating and using your ECES account.