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UB Computer Resources
University
Ranked as one of the most wired universities in the nation, the University at Buffalo’s computer facilities, including its Center for Computational Research—one of the top supercomputing locations in the Country—augment individual departmental facilities and provide additional technical support.
Computing and Information Technology (CIT) is the University’s central computing organization and supports a diverse, technology-rich environment to meet the growing demand for larger system (timesharing) services, data network connections, telecommunication services, workstations, microcomputers and other technology concerns including student access and instructional technology support. UB provides free unlimited high-speed access to the Internet and World Wide Web, e-mail accounts, a full suite of productivity software, and printing--including high-quality graphic printing.
School of Nursing
The PI has an up-to-date computer and printer in her office. The computer is hard-wired to the School of Nursing’s Local Area Network (LAN) served by 4 Dell PowerEdge file, print, Web, Streaming Media, and SharePoint Portal Servers. All with Windows 2003 Operating System. The same system is available for all funded graduate research assistants. The PI and the research team also have Ethernet connection to the University’s UNIX environment supporting a wide variety of software. There is access to the Internet through central E-mail services protected by university-supported firewalls including PureMessage utilities. Several spam prevention levels are available to the enduser. Secure wireless connections are available throughout the school using UB Virtual Private Network (VPN) clients for on and off campus use.
The UB School of Nursing currently uses Symantec Anti-Virus, version 10.1.6.6000 to protect against infection. The research workstations are equipped with mirrored SATA hard drives, which gives us 100% hardware failure protection against data loss for files that are saved locally. Our servers are protected from intrusion and infection, by using Symantec Anti-Virus, version 10.1.6.600 and BlackIce. The servers are backed up nightly, so any data loss due to a hardware failure is 100% recoverable. SharePoint Portal Server is available for secure research collaboration in fall 2007.
Additional detailed information
Dell PowerEdge 2400 (File & SAV Servers) with 2 Pentium III Processors, 2 Gigabyte RAM, and 200 Gigabytes of storage space
Dell PowerEdge 2600 (File, SAV, Print Server) with Dual Xeon Processors, 2 Gigabyte RAM, and 300 Gigabytes of storage space
Dell PowerEdge 6600 (File, Web, Streaming Media Server) with Dual Xeon Processors, 8 Gigabyte RAM, and 300 Gigabytes of storage space
Dell PowerEdge 6800 (Web, Share Portal Server, WSUS) with Quad Xeon Processors, 16 Gigabyte RAM, and 200 Gigabytes of storage space
They are all Windows 2003 Operating System.
In addition, we have 3 Dell PowerEdge 2300 (Application, Terminal Services, File Servers) with Dual Xeon Processors, 2 Gigabyte RAM, and 300 Gigabytes of storage for computer lab software and student storage space.
The combination of high-end servers and uptodate workstations throughout the school allows full use of a variety of software including: RN CAPs testing, Cardiac Simulator, Anesthesia Simulator, Respiratory Simulator, Microsoft Office 2003 (transition to Office 2007 is in progress) and SPSS version 15 for fall 2007.
Our state of the art computing lab can be divided into two classes/labs (43, 27 workstations), each with it’s own teaching station and high output HP LaserJet printer, fully equipped to view any media or presentation. Wireless access is available in the lab and the hallways outside the lab providing both open port access as well as the security of UB VPN access using the on-campus connection authentication. This ensures a secure encrypted access when necessary.
2 teaching stations equipped with LCD monitor, optical mice, 120 GB hard drives, 1024 MB RAM, DVD player, and front USB ports for pen drive access, ELMO, VCR, Smart Board, Projector, and surround sound.
70 computers running Windows XP Professional with 17” LCD monitors, optical mice, 80 GB hard drives, 512 MB RAM, 250MB ZIP drives, DVD player, CD or DVD Burner, and front USB ports for pen drive access. These machines allow the lab users to access their email, connect to course material via the web, copy, print, edit and save to a variety of storage devices. Research assistants have access to the School of Nursing computer labs as well as the computers in their individual study offices.
We also have 3 separate IT classrooms including teaching stations equipped with LCD monitor, optical mice, 120 GB hard drives, 1024 MB RAM, DVD player, and front USB ports for pen drive access, ELMO, VCR, Smart Board, Projector, and surround sound.
Our Nursing Student Lounge is equipped with 6 workstations and a networked LaserJet printer. Nearby, the Nursing Doctoral Office is equipped with a wireless access point and 8 workstation carrels with UB wireless connection.
Small teleconferences or seminars benefit from our two distance learning rooms equipped with Wolf Visualizer, VCR, Smart Board, Projector, surround sound, Polycom phone device, 2 large screen TV’s, and 2 cameras.
Skills Lab
There are 10 Pentium III workstations with XP Operating System, 40 GB hard drive, 512 MB RAM with optional headphones. Four workstations are being refreshed for fall 2007 to provide Pentium IV processors, larger hard drives, and increased memory. These workstations are used to provide opportunities for undergraduate students to review, in video format, basic and advanced nursing skills prior to actual skill testing and evaluation.
Simulator Lab
used in conjunction with a Laerdal SimMan© simulated patient for both undergraduate and graduate nursing students and faculty. This device is a mobile advanced patient simulator, realistically constructed with appropriate anatomy and clinical features for student and faculty training related to a wide variety of presentations and environments.
Anesthesia Simulator
The Patient Simulation Center, which includes an operating room with advanced monitoring and gas-delivery systems, employs advanced technology to support the surgical and resuscitative care of a full-body, computerized mannequin (MedSim Eagle©; aka ‘Simulated Anesthesia Mannequin School of Nursing (SAMSON)). SAMSON is controlled by a Sun Sparc4 workstation (32mb RAM; 535MB hard drive) running SunOS 5.4 generic and Openwindows 3.4. Used for basic and advanced training, SAMSON enables graduate anesthesia and acute care nurse practitioner students to learn, practice, and gain confidence with various clinical procedures and provides training in managing rare and critical events and crises.
