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APPENDIX II ACADEMIC STAFF GUIDE TO
COMPUTER RESOURCES The following offices and units
provide a multitude of computer services to various units, departments, and
individual staff members throughout campus. Administrative Information
Technology Services (AITS) 50 Gerty Drive AITS is the University's
administrative computer services support organization. The AITS mission is
to: ·
deliver
appropriate, cost-effective information technology systems and services that
support the administrative processes of the University; ·
provide
leadership on information technology best-practices; and ·
collaborate
with the campus-based computing organizations on policies and standards that
optimize and secure the University's information technology resources. AITS is divided into five
functional areas: Administration and Financial Management, Applications
Development and Data Management, Applications Support, Computer and Network
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Administration and Financial Management Applications Development and
Data Management
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Provides the administrative,
financial, Provides the leadership,
planning, Provides the leadership,
planning, Provides the leadership,
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Enterprise
Architecture Planning |
The AITS
architecture planning initiative provides a framework for technology planning,
piloting, and documentation. The AITS Architecture Planning Team constantly
reviews the current IT infra- structure and current practices for developing,
implementing, and integra- ting enterprise information systems at the
University of Illinois. The Team also researches and proves new technology
and IT practices for use at the University and coordinates their
documentation and initial production implementation. |
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The Imaging Technology Group
(ITG) provides state-of-the-art imaging facilities for researchers at the
Beckman Institute and the University of Illinois. This mission is
accomplished through two facilities: the Visualization, Media and Imaging
Laboratory, and the Microscopy Suite. These two facilities are open to all
faculty, staff and students on the UIUC campus. The Visualization, Media and
Imaging Laboratory (VMIL) provides resources of use to many fields within the
arts and sciences. These resources support a wide variety of projects,
including: scientific visualization, image editing and analysis, 3D
modeling/animation, broadcast-quality video and DVD production,
high-resolution 2D scanning, 3D object scanning, 3D printing, and research
presentation. The Microscopy Suite (MS)
provides a range of imaging modalities and supporting equipment for the
preparation, imaging and analysis of microscopic specimens. Instruments in
the facility support electron (TEM, Environmental SEM), light (fluorescence,
multi-photon confocal, reflected light) and scanning probe (AFM, NSOM)
microscopy. Both facilities require user
registration and fees may apply. Campus Information
Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) CITES' mission is to provide
the campus with basic computing services and support for instruction and
research, the infrastructure for networking and telephony, and the leadership
necessary for the campus to use these technologies to accomplish its goals. |
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Account Services CCSO-ANNOUNCE mailing list |
Creates staff and student email
(cluster) accounts, sets or resets passwords as needed, creates Network IDs,
sets Network ID passwords as needed, and acts as a sales and distribution
point for site licensed software. Provides official announcements
about CITES services. All University faculty, staff, and students are welcome
to subscribe. To subscribe or view an archive of messages posted to this
list, go to Web site listed in the left column. |
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Central Help Desk Computing Resources for
Education in the
Information Technology
Security
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Provides phone, email, and
walk-in consulting to address a wide range of questions and issues related to
campus computing and communications. Serves as the central contact for
questions related to CITES and its services. Provides on-site consultants,
services, manuals, and computer laboratory facilities for the students and
faculty of the College of Engineering. Provides faculty, staff, and
students with comprehensive, fee-based training on computers, software, and
related technology. Oversees campus-wide network
and computer security. Offers educational opportunities in computer and
networking best practices in an effort to provide UIUC faculty, staff, and
students with a secure computing environment. Responds Provides computing labs and
services to faculty, staff, and students. Each lab is staffed by consultants
and has a variety of software, hardware, and audio-visual equipment. |
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Newsletter
Network Design Office (NDO)
UNIX Systems Hardware Group
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Provides news, how-tos, and
statistics about University computing and communications resources. The
newsletter is published at the beginning and middle of each semester.
Provides faculty, staff, and
students with on-site, fee-based technical support for custom configuration
or problems that cannot be resolved via phone or walk-in service. |
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Division of Management
Information (DMI) The Division of Management Information
(DMI) is a service unit reporting to the provost dedicated to assisting
administrators, faculty, and staff obtain timely, accurate, and appropriate
information from the University's administrative databases. The Management
Information Web site (http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/) contains
an extensive array of data resources, including the Campus Profile. Office for Information
Management (OIM) This office was designed to
foster the study of information management across all functional disciplines
and to lead the College of Commerce and Business Administration in the
incorporation of information technology into the business curriculum. OIM aims to coordinate the
development of computer applications in the course curriculum, to supervise
computer laboratories used for general student projects that simulate
specialized business environments, and to provide a focal point for
research-related information systems and their impact on management and its
operations. |
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The facilities and activities of
the office permit the College of Commerce and Business Administration to give
students experience in state-of-the-art equipment and programs in information
systems. National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) The National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, one of the five original National Science
Foundation's Supercomputer Centers, opened in January 1986. NCSA earned and maintains
an international reputation in high-performance computing and networking and
in developing innovative software applications. NCSA greatly broadened the
user base of remote supercomputing and the Internet with NCSA Telnet in 1987.
In 1992, the center introduced NCSA Mosaic, the first readily-available
graphical Web browser, which helped launch the multibillion-dollar
"dot.com" sector. Since 1997 NCSA has been the
lead site for the National Computational Science Alliance, a nationwide partnership
to prototype the computing and information infrastructure of the 21st
century, called the grid. In 2001 the effort to build the grid entered high
gear, when NCSA and three partners were tapped by the NSF to build and deploy
the TeraGrid, the most comprehensive infrastructure ever deployed for
scientific research. When completed the TeraGrid will include the world's
fastest supercomputers -- including 8 teraflops of Linux cluster computing
power at NCSA -- as well as tools and applications for distributed scientific
research. NCSA's current computational
resources include two Linux clusters capable of a combined 2 teraflops peak
performance, and a 1,528-processor SGI Origin2000 array. The center also
offers a Private Sector Program, which gives Fortune 500 companies the chance
to use new technologies, hardware and software years before they hit the
market. |
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