ITD
Mission and Measurements
Dedicated to Excellence in Academic Computing
Funded under the
Office of the Provost, the primary mission of ITD is to further
the academic goals of the university. As succinctly stated
by the Commission on the Future of NC State, the university
aspires to become “the nation’s leading land-grant
institution.” Information and communication technologies
are clearly essential to many aspects of this ambitious undertaking.
The statistics
below highlight some of the ways ITD is furthering the university’s
academic goals.
Providing information
technology infrastructure, systems and services that empower
faculty and student excellence and success:
- Network backbone:
fiber optic, multi-gigabit capacity
- nternet usage:
Average monthly load inbound -123.5 Mbps; outbound - 52.0
Mbps
- Internet usage:
Average peak monthly load - inbound - 274Mbps: outbound
- 222 Mbps
- Network availability
- backbone uptime (03/01- 01/02): 0.9986767%
- Percent campus
buildings with fiber optic connection to network backbone:
95%
- Percent students
in on-campus housing with direct network access available(ResNet):
100%
- Mission-critical
machines monitored 24 x 7 x 365: ~ 335 servers, 1 enterprise
server, 1 mainframe Average number financial, payroll and
other critical “batch” processes monitored:
~350/day
- Number active
computing accounts: 46,275 (created automatically for all
faculty, staff, students)
- User file space:
allocation per account 50MB; total space1.2 terabytes
- Number software
packages provided: Unity/Unix environment ~350; Unity/Windows
~100
- Unity lab workstations
supported: Unity/Unix-117; Unity/Windows-179; Unity/Mac-15;
Mac kiosks-10
- College lab
workstations w. ITD-provided basic desktop: Unity/Eos/Unix-401;
Unity/Windows-1401
- Assistive technologies
deployment in Unity Labs: updates of JAWS and ZoomText in
progress
- www.ncsu.edu
home page delivery rate (“Keynote 40” - provided
stats): 99.23% successful hits
www.ncsu.edu home page average “hits”/day(10/01):
6,500,000
Average number of e-mail messages delivered/month: 13,906,117
- Number Help
Desk calls resolved, 05/00 to 04/01: 34,728
- Number students
receiving Orientation IT training: ~ 3500
- Number “Computing
Essentials at NC State 2001” CDs distributed: ~ 9000
- Number College
departments served by Distributed Support staff: 15
- Number Accessible
Technology workshops, presentations, 06/01-01/02: 12; ~230
attendees
- Number attendees
at IT Expo : ~750 in 2001
Contributing
to research in areas of academic focus for the university:
- Partner with
Spirent Communications and others on new CENTAUR Lab, a
multi-million dollar state-of-the-art network testing/teaching
facility, opened on Centennial Campus in fall 2001
- Partner with
IBM and College of Engineering on Linux s360 Project
- Partner with
DELTA on Wolfware, which is part of national Open Knowledge
Initiative (OKI)
- Leader in North
Carolina Networking Initiative(NCNI) and Internet2 networking
Initiatives
- With outside
funding, direct and staff Internet2 Test and Evaluation
Center (NC-ITECS)
- Now in early
stages: Partnering with UNC-CH, Duke, IBM and NC Supercomputing
Center on first-of-kind Bioinfomatics Grid.
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