Resources Available for College of Computing Sciences

University Computing Systems

Teaching and Research Resources Available for College of Computing Sciences

It is the responsibility of the instructor to make sure that all course projects and homework are compatible with the services provided before assigning the work to students.

UCS Contacts
Unix/Linux
Development Environment
Windows Support
File Services
Web Services
Database Servers
Web-Database Interfaces
Programming Interfaces
Requests for New or Updated Services

This page provides a summary of the resources supported by IST UCS (University Computing Systems). For more detailed information regarding these services please visit the UCS Website, http://web.njit.edu .

UCS Contacts

Gedaliah Wolosh : Manager of Computing Resources
sys@oak.njit.edu : All general inquiries

Unix/Linux Operating Systems Support

Solaris
Red Hat Linux (RHEL)

Development Environment

As with most other technical universities, the primary development environment supported is Unix-based.

Windows Support

Installation of faculty PCs
Limited individual software installation
MS SQL server and IIS are available on a limited basis for classwork and graduate student projects.

Note that there are policies regarding domain membership, anti-virus software and software updates which must be adhered to. In addition, Academic Computing Systems and Telecommunications and Networks maintain an extensive Microsoft environment. Details can be found on the IST (Information Services & Technology) Website.

File Services

The AFS distributed filessystem is supported. Files in AFS can be accessed from Unix/Linux and Windows AFS clients; user data in AFS is backed up daily. For details : http://web.njit.edu -> AFS.

Webservers

UCS manages several Webservers, including one dedicated to CCS : homer.njit.edu ( and its many aliases ). All Webservers run the Apache server software, Dynamic Web content is supported with CGI, Java (JSP and servlets via Tomcat) and PHP.

Database Servers

Oracle
MySQL

UCS supports separate Oracle DB servers for instruction and research.

Web-Database Interfaces

JDBC
Perl
PHP
CGI

Programming

IDE: Eclipse
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Python
Perl
Ruby
Lisp
PHP

Requests for New or Updated Services

All requests for new services, including Web and database services, must be made at least three weeks prior to the beginning of the semester for which they are requested .
Requests for new services must be made to the department chairs. Requests made by faculty or students directly to UCS will be forwarded to the department chair for consideration.
Request for new commercial software must be made to the department chair at least six weeks in advance of its expected use. The process for purchasing new commercial software requires considerable interaction among UCS, the department and other divisions in IST.
Requests for free, open source software, other than web and database software, which runs on Solaris and/or RHEL may be made directly to sys@oak.njit.edu at any time. This includes both new software and upgrading current software. These types of requests can often be accommodated within five working days.