3.0 PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERABLES
The Texas Alliance for Distributed Computing, Communication and Collaboration is comprised of a broad range of faculty, staff and graduate students from a variety of academic units (Appendix B). Coordination and management of the overall proposal reflects the various levels of granularity required to fully realize the research results (Figure 1).
The Alliance will be administered by an executive committee comprised of the two Co-PI's (T. Oden-TICAM and T. Edgar-ACITS; Appendix C), along with five other members from the research leadership team (J. Browne, G. Carey, M. Knox, L. Leibrock, and P. McQuesten; Appendix C). This group will have the responsibility for ensuring that the overall goals of this project are met. This group will also monitor how well the individual projects within each of the three research thrusts, distributed multimedia, advanced simulation and modeling and enterprise systems and management, are contributing to more broadly demonstrable results in those areas. All coordination with industrial partners who are participating with the Alliance will also be done through this group.
In addition, a program manager who reports to the executive committee will be hired to have operational responsibility for the project. This will be a new position ($50,000/year), and represents a commitment by The University of Texas to the success of these projects.
- The program manager will:
- 1. Define the program management as new technology requirements mature over the timeframe of the project
- 2. Manage to ensure general research directions through on-going consultation with Project PIs
- 3. Facilitate collaborative exchange of reports, findings and research deliverables across Project PIs
- 4. Coordinate program and colloquia schedules across all project participants
- 5. Conduct liaison activities for communications and deliverable requirements between Intel, The University of Texas at Austin and other industrial participants
- 6. Coordinate technical support and training of systems administrators for NT systems in the project
Intel/NT expertise is available in the academic units with concentrations in Business, Natural Sciences, and Engineering. ACITS maintain a central expert group that is responsible for supporting academic needs utilizing Intel/NT. This group supports NT services such as consulting, integration, system administration, user disk shares, Web publishing backups, databases and related applications.
Each of the individual projects will be under the direction of a project principal investigator (PI) who works with associated investigators (Table 3). Each project investigator will provide Intel with an annual written report describing the performance of the IA equipment, its limitations and capabilities. The research carried out using the IA architecture in the Windows/NT environment will provide Intel with substantial data regarding the performance characteristics of a broad range of Intel equipment running the Windows/NT software.
In addition to colloquia on The University of Texas at Austin campus, where researchers and academics share the results of their work on this grant project with other faculty and students, the grantees will take the findings of their research to national and international conferences. Each grantee will acknowledge Intel's participation in the research resulting from the Texas Alliance for Distributed Computing, Communication and Collaboration project.