OSU Forestry Computing Resources (FCR) Facilities and Equipment
The Forestry Computing facilities are managed by 10 full-time Information Technology professionals with the support of 4-8 student technicians.
The primary network at the OSU College of Forestry consists of two master switches plus about 110 secondary switches. The computing facilities currently consist of an extensive Windows and UNIX-based workstation network which services approximately 1200 devices (computers, printers, servers, etc.) connected with over 60 miles of cable and fiber. The network provides a 100Gb link to campus, the Forest Sciences Lab, and major servers. The remaining servers and most workstations are provided 10Gb connections. The buildings have essentially complete 802.11n wireless network coverage providing access to both the forestry and public campus networks. The primary network is connected to the OSU and USDA Forest Service networks which provide access to our 4 satellite networks: OSU College Forests, Oak Creek building (formerly FRL), HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and ODFW. Network activities are coordinated with OSU Information Services to avoid redundancy and to assure interoperability.
FCR maintains the following computing resources:
- Web servers hosting web applications, ArcGIS Server, and collaboration applications. Environment includes both production and testing servers.
- Large-format printing (60 inch maximum width)
- Desktop applications stored redundantly and replicated to remote sites
- Windows and Unix file servers with over 130TB of disk space for public, workgroup, and user files
- A Microsoft SQL server cluster providing over 600GB of space for college and workgroup databases, plus an additional SQL server for development and testing
- Administrative servers providing directory services (authentication), print services, secure FTP remote file access, system management services (client OS deployment and application distribution)
- Off-site, enterprise-level disk-based backup system providing roughly 390TB of backup storage
- 2 private Linux compute clusters providing a total of 558 processors
The university provides the following resources:
- Core infrastructure including user-focused services: Microsoft Exchange e-mail and Office 365, Cisco WebEx, Google Apps, and telephone services
- Ancillary on-premise disk storage
- Cloud-based file sharing and collaboration tool (Box)
- Current project: a dedicated research network designed to fulfill the architecture and performance requirements for integrating with federal research networks, with a 100 Gbps connection between OSU Corvallis and Internet2, minimum 10 Gbps connections to major off-campus research sites, and 40 Gbps between campus data centers and major laboratories.
Software available on the Foresty network: