UBiquity is totally committed to supporting all of science, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and geology. Both students and instructors can access additional storage. The instructor sends us a note saying that they're giving a GIS class with 20 or 30 students in it who need additional disks so we can allocate what they need for the class. This can be as little as 5 MG, or as much as 40 or 50 megabytes. A student in a semester theoretically can have two or three hundred megabytes.
UBiquity oversees the disks throughout the semester.
When the semester is over, the disks are wiped clean for next semester's use. The Science and Engineering node also supports a large research infrastructure of graduate students, who can get as much as four or five hundred megabytes for their graduate studies to perform tasks such as modeling the Great Lakes for the flow of toxins. The Science and Engineering node has also realized major administrative and economic savings with its UBiquity Sun solution. Brunskill has not had to increase his staff to implement or support the new environment. He currently has only one staff person for every 250 workstations in the UBiquity environment.