1.1. Identify the broad overall IT needs of the
project.
The task was in initially daunting. I would be working alone, I would
have to write a lot of the software I that needed and I had very limited funds
(about £6000, the project manager managed to get this increased to £15,000)
with which to purchase computers and any software that I could not write.
The UD site has neither Internet connectivity nor an academic network in
place. I was going to have to store huge the binary files produced by the
diagnostic equipment (over 1GB of data per participant) along with a vast
amount of database records without even the most basic networking structure in
place.
Given
these constraints the job at hand looked difficult, however after carefully
thinking through all aspects of it, I decided that it would be an excellent
opportunity to prove that I could design an IT system to serve this project
despite the challenges involved.
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