Workspace
- Office Space
- Personal Productivity Computing Device with access to Cornell Certified Desktop Program
- Access to Cornell Licensed Software
- RingCentral telephony service
- Shared Conference and Video Conference spaces
- Shared Copy and Printer resources
- Wired and Wireless Network access
- IT@Cornell provided services for Faculty, Students, and Staff
Instructional
The IT Service Group and Cornell IT work closely with faculty and teaching staff to create and maintain services that help meet instructional goals. Providing standardized teaching environments is a primary focus to ensure an equitable learning experience for students, which include the following areas:
- Multiple Classrooms with various AV, Distance Learning, and Breakout Features.
- 3 Computer Labs utilizing linux and windows workstations with Cornell Licensed Software
- Instructional Linux servers
- Virtual Windows labs
- Additional Campus Computing Labs
- Auto-Grading
- Jupyter Hub
- RStudio/Posit Workbench
- GitLab
- Local Github Enterpise Server hosted on premises
- Project-hosting
- 350+ virtual machines (VMs)
- Web-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- CMSX – custom Learning Management System used widely within Bowers and also be request for other departments
- Department web servers for course websites: available with Bowers departments (CS, InfoSci, Stat) and ECE.
Infrastructure and Networking
- +8 Petabytes on-line storage (NFS/SMB)
- Data Centers
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Location Footprint Rack Capacity Gates G27 825 sqft 20 Gates 444 250 sqft 8 Phillips 110 390 sqft 8 Tang 301 830 sqft 6 Tata 361 410 sqft 8 CIS Bldg 474A 8 CIS Bldg B75 25
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- High bandwidth networking – 10Gb within the data center and uplink to campus backbone network.
- More than 200 VLANs allocated and managed by the Research and Instructional Support team. The VLANs are behind the campus Managed Firewall, with less than 2% opted out due to research requirements.
- Systems are accessible remotely via dual factor VPN pools. A small group of researchers connect to their research systems using a dual factor enabled SSH Hopper server.
Shared GPU – Unicorn Cluster 
As of August 2025
Unicorn is a community-purchased, community-driven shared cluster supporting research across Cornell Engineering, Bowers CIS, and Tech Campus built on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and powered by the latest versions of Slurm, CUDA, and related HPC software. The cluster consists of approximately 205 servers, including 85 CPU-only servers and 120 GPU servers providing 9500 CPU cores and 755 GPUs – spread out over 70 resource owners and utilized by 765 community members.
Unicorn operates under a collaborative ownership model. Faculty groups contribute by purchasing servers, which are integrated into both community-wide and private preemptive queues. All member-owned nodes are accessible to the full Unicorn community, while each group retains priority access to its own resources as needed.
For more details, you can visit our page here: Unicorn Cluster