CSE server room rack space Guideline

After the server room was renovated in 2008, we were able to allocate some space for CSE faculty research. Currently we have 10 racks for non-infrastructural servers*.

It was approved in Facilities Committee () as how to utilize the space. A "fairness doctrine" scheme is adopted as such:

Two racks* will be allocated for the six research areas in CSE:

      Theoretical Computer Science(TH)
      Networking and Computer Systems(NE)
      Artificial Intelligence(AI)
      Data, Knowledge and Information Management(DB)
      Software Technologies(ST)
      Vision and Graphics(VG)

When the racks are full in one area, either old servers will be moved out to make room for new ones, or they will have to be put in the PG offices or some other labs until space becomes available.
CSE faculties in the same area can discuss with each other as how to make use of the server room space.

Space is limited, in order to prevent old servers that will take up valuable server room space, CS system will announce to the research group equipment kept in the server room that are older than 5 years. Equipment older than 10 years will have to be off the rack, unless it has approval from Facilities Committee.

* The space will be reduced in the future depending on the infrastructure need.