Presented by: Alan Silver, Sara Nagreen, Laura Grady, Leah Scheide, & Sarah Buszka
Room: 1185
Time: 2:40-3:00 PM
Description:
The purpose of this presentation is to gather the IT community electronically in a place where people can share their skills and what they want to learn about. It’s a way for the IT people on campus to find others for help or to bounce ideas off of. It’s a place for the community to discuss projects or services that they also run or are interested in, and a place for one to be a part of the working groups for projects around the University.

Presented by: Steve Barnet
Room: Nicholas Hall (2080)
Time: 2:40-3:00 PM
Description:
Taking 300TB a year of data at the South Pole and delivering it to researchers around the world is a huge and exciting challenge. This is a look at how we approach it, and how our approaches are evolving with the technical landscape.
The goal of this session is to share lesson learned in building IceCube’s computing model: What worked, what didn’t and why? I will also provide some tech background on computing and storage systems.

Presented by: Pete Sengstock & Alan Silver
Room: Plenary Room (1310)
Time: 3:35-4:00 PM
Description:
After the polar vortex swept through the region, several campus buildings suffered water leaks from frozen pipes, but damage to the Chemistry Building and Vilas Hall was catastrophic. The flooding left both buildings inaccessible to non-essential personnel and classes for several days, and displaced many faculty, staff and students for weeks. We will briefly go over some of the damage and the campus response, but mostly focus on some of the issues that departmental IT faced, the failures and hindsight, the good planning and workarounds, and the unexpected silver linings.
We hope that attendees can learn from our mistakes and successes, as well as hear about some of the various support avenues we discovered while working through these disasters.