Computing Resources

Computing at Emory

Information technology at Emory knits together students, faculty and staff throughout the world with technical tools and information resources. Information technology is an essential ingredient of the Emory experience and improves the ability of members of the University community to pursue their educational and research endeavors.

Using a 155 megabit per second link, Emory is one of 107 universities that interconnect at high speeds as members of Internet2, a project to provide high-performance network support for next generation research and education applications. Traffic on Emory's data network runs at 700 gigabytes per day, which is 700 billion bytes or roughly 700 times the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence. Traffic to and from the internet runs at 15 megabits per second and amounts to 225 gigabytes per day.

There are 18 gigabytes of Web content stored on Emory servers. Some four million e-mail messages are delivered each month to people at Emory.

Communication Tools

• Conferencing: Communities around courses, around activities or around an interests.
  • LearnLink
  • Goizueta Business School's FirstClass
  • Rollins School of Public Health's eLearn.
• Email accounts: All Emory students, faculty and staff are eligible for email accounts. The type of account varies by school and department. Email is an important imformation tools for all members of the community.
• Network connections:
  • All buildings including residence halls are connected.
  • Internet2.
• Emory Web: Emory uses its web as a way to keep the community informed. The Emory internal homepage has daily items of interest and links to a calendar of events, a phone book, and other Emory information sources.

Classroom and Research Tools

• Blackboard: An online course delivery system for teaching and learning through web technology.
• Library tools:
  • on-line card catalog
  • LIBNet -- provides access to a bundled package of research tools for the remote library user.
  • Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services
  • Law School Federal Court Finder.
• Writing Center tools: As well as being a place with people to help assist students with their writing skills, the Writing Center provides assistance electronically.
• ECIT: Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching is a special multimedia classroom.
• BimCore -Subsciption-based computing support service for biologists, biochemists, geneticists, and molecular biologists.
• MedWeb - a catalog of health-related Websites.

Facilities

• Computer Labs: Emory has a rich environment of publicly available computing facilites. Some of the locations are the InfoCommons , Cox Lab, and various department and school specific labs. Many residence halls also have Computing Labs.
• Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation
• Computing at Oxford College

Other Resources

• Information Technology Division: Emory ITD provides support and service for many of the computing resources mentioned above. Visit the web page of the Office of the Vice
  Provost for IT and CIO.
• Network Communications
• ComputerStore@Emory: Emory has its own store devoted just to computers. It offers educational discounts on many hardware and software products to Emory faculty, staff and students.
• Departmental Computing Resources (Internal Computing Resources Page)