Educational Technology

RADMIND Distributed Servers Begin Rollout

April 2004

After successfully re-imaging 675 iBook and PowerBook computers at elementary and middle school levels, the focus of the RADMIND Program has turned to deploying distributed RADMIND servers in schools.

RADMIND is a free suite of UNIX tools developed by the Research Systems UNIX Group at the University of Michigan for remotely maintaining the file systems of client computers across a network. The fact that the 675 laptop computers are all running Mac OS X allows the district to use powerful UNIX tools to better support users and their computers.

Deployment of these RADMIND servers is being implemented in a joint effort by ASD Instructional Technology and Information Technology Departments. The distributed RADMIND servers will enable more timely and meaningful updates to the managed clients served by the district’s RADMIND system. Successful testing of the distributed server model took place at four district sites in early March and placement of production servers in schools began at the end of March. It is anticipated that each elementary and middle school will have a distributed RADMIND server online by May of this year.

With these distributed servers placed in schools, they will help district staff update and maintain these laptops both now and into the future.

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