Downtime will occur in the early morning hours and should not interfere with normal daytime use. An announcement will be made when the schedule is finalized. We are planning on moving plains.nodak.edu users to a new machine shortly after the end of the Spring semester. No timetable has been determined. When this move is completed, all user file systems will be protected by RAID and prairie and plains will have mirrored operating system file systems to improve system reliability.
Similar plans are in the works for badlands.nodak.edu.
NDSU has applied to be an Internet2 site. If our application is approved, we will have a seat at the table for ongoing discussions regarding implementation and application development. John Grosen will be serving as the coordinator for all application development projects. Any faculty at HECN institutions that are interested in or currently working on IPv6 applications should contact him. He is also starting to evaluate the HECN training needs.