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Information Technology Department

Welcome to the website for the Department of Information Technology of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Our site includes information on:

  • HSPH policies and procedures
  • Complete information on computing at HSPH
  • A menu of services available in all areas of the department
  • Account forms and information
  • Hardware and software purchasing information
  • Facility information
  • Training material and FAQs
  • Information on new initiatives

We encourage the community to submit suggestions and requests for the type of information that would be most useful to our user community.

Monthly Downtimes

HSPH IT Department reserves 6 hours of time per month to make necessary security and systems upgrades. 

During these time periods, any of the following systems may be affected:

  • email
  • computing laboratories
  • file and print servers
  • Novell network resources
  • web, application, and video servers
  • web applications and websites
  • network and wireless services
  • PDA syncing

During the week before the downtime, HSPH IT will make an announcement on which specific systems will be affected by the downtime.

Upcoming schedule:

  • 9/10/2009
  • 10/15/2009
  • 11/12/2009
  • 12/10/2009
  • 1/14/2010
  • 2/11/2010
  • 3/11/2010
  • 4/15/2010
  • 5/13/2010
  • 6/10/2010

High Performance Research Cluster

In 2005, HSPH launched a high performance research cluster of high-speed dual processor computers. These computers are tied together with the LINUX operating system creating one large supercomputer that is capable of running analysis on many different types of statistical software including SAS, STATA, and Mathematica.

If faculty are interested in purchasing nodes as part of this expansion, please contact Bill Mahoney, Assistant Director of Information Technology, 432-1751, cluster_admin@hsph.harvard.edu. For more information, please see the research cluster page.

Status:

  • Cluster contains 81 nodes/262 CPUs; further expansion is being planned