Mission Control Inside The Olympics
16th March 2010
The Winter Olympics have brought many headaches for organizers and the computing systems have not been one of them. In fact, things have been pretty quiet inside the low-rise building in east Vancouver where the technology operations were headquartered. Atos Origin's Magnus Alvarsson, one of those in charge of overseeing the Olympics' IT setup, has said that the objective was to be bored. And from where he sat, just outside the computer-filled room that was the equivalent of NASA's mission control, things have been just about as uneventful as he could hope for.
Among the biggest problems have been minor things such as people forgetting their password or moving computers from one location to another at a venue. It has shown up on their monitoring that someone was unplugging something. His team also had to move some wiring at the luge site when the course was rerouted after the death of a Georgian athlete. Alvarsson further said that they moved the start point a little and had to re-do a little bit of cabling. Although the Games are still just a few days old and workers continue to monitor things, Alvarsson said his thoughts are starting to turn to the process of taking out the massive amounts of computing and networking gear installed at spots throughout Vancouver and Whistler.
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