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Computing Facilities
The Computer Network Center, CNC, in the Purdue School of Engineering and
Technology at IUPUI provides the technical support for the computing needs of
the students, faculty and staff. The CNC directly manages 10 instructional and
1 large open PC lab along with technical support for approximately 20 UNIX and
PC departmental labs. The typical PC configuration for the CNC labs is a
Pentium IV. The CNC is commonly involved in the support of the teaching effort
and student project assistance.
The CNC currently supports UNIX, and Windows 2003 servers. The SUN UNIX servers
provide for all general purpose faculty and student UNIX accounts. Apache
software handles the school Web services. Calendar and Messaging services based
on Microsoft Exchange are provided by the University Information Technology
Services, UITS. The CNC administers a DNS server for school-associated domains.
The network infrastructure responsibilities for the CNC span 2 buildings. The
campus network provided by UITS, handles the backbone routing services. The CNC
manages the Local Area Networks with a 10/100 MBit Switch based topology. All
local wiring has been completely redone in the last 5 years and now provides
certified CAT5 to the desktop. The CNC has adapted its network directory
services to the campus based Active Directory Service, ADS, as the organization
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SERVICES AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS & FACULTY
The Computer Network Center, CNC, provides a full range of support services to
assist faculty and students in the use of technology. The CNC is staffed with a
Director, an academic computing manager, a support services manager, a research
computing manager, a database and web administrator, a senior lead software
engineer, and a part-time hourly help desk technician. Student employees are
also heavily relied upon for hardware repair and for student assistance in
ET109.
The faculty and staff are provided with hardware and software support to
maintain maximum productivity for the business of education. Research
facilities are supported with technical expertise in areas of UNIX
administration along with software and network management. The CNC works
closely with departmental local service providers to insure that the
departmental and research labs are supported.
The School WEB Server at http://www.engr.iupui.edu
provides information about and for our School and allows our faculty to have
