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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+ web-based course 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
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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.
As of 2-1-2025
The G2 cluster is community purchased, community-driven shared cluster that consists of approximately 205 servers, including 82 CPU-only servers and 123 GPU servers providing 9000 CPU cores and 755 GPUs – spread out over 70 resource owners and utilized by 965 community members. The cluster currently operates on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and is managed by the SLURM workload manager, supporting various CUDA versions.
Participants contribute to G2 by purchasing nodes, which are integrated into both general member and private preemptive queues. While all member-owned nodes are accessible to the entire G2 community, each group’s jobs are given preemptive priority, allowing them to reclaim their nodes as needed for their private queue.
For more details on the operation of G2, visit: G2 Cluster Information