Features of TeraGrid User & System News

Features of TeraGrid User & System News include:

• A calendar view for outages and other dated events
• RSS feeds
• Improved searchability for messages
• A database backend for subscribers and messages
• Additional detail for outages and system availability
• Email delivery as a background task
• Integration with Inca for displaying outage announcements as whole-system downtimes
• A redesigned subscription process based on TeraGrid Central Database
• More specificity for systems and groups affected by date-based items
• Better access to modification of existing items
• User interface improvements, such as mouse-over and calendar details
• Item tagging for inclusion in separate delivery channels
• Date filters (eliminating the need for an archive area)
• Mandatory news category, from which users may not unsubscribe and to which only super-administrators may post

Note: If you post outages, make sure to take advantage of the dated system outages for Inca reporting when appropriate.

TeraGrid staff at San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) administer the User & System News service. To send suggestions and comments, email  docgroup @ sdsc.edu .

This document was developed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0503697 to the University of Chicago and subcontracted to Indiana University. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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