About
Computing Services
The CSE Computing Services staff provides computing support to the Computer Science and Engineering Department. This consists of the Department's faculty, graduate students, undergraduate majors and non-majors in our service level courses. The staff provide hardware and software support for over 3000 students, faculty, and administrative staff each quarter. They also design and build various software tools and hardware to support a unified computing environment. Their mission at Ohio State is to bridge the gap between the educator and the computer user by providing a user-friendly, stable computing environment.
The CSE computing environment consists of two main operating systems. Sun Solaris is provided to CSE users via Sun Sunfire 480 servers and is primarily used in support of our introductory programming, majors, and graduate courses. Microsoft Windows is provided for the department through Dell Intel based servers that allow multiple users to simultaneously use the same server. Each user's Dell PC is connected via a high-speed network using gigabit ethernet technology. Connected through this network are approximately six hundred PCs, including a variety of specialty labs and departmental labs.
The departmental labs are in Caldwell Laboratory, Bolz Hall, and Baker Systems. These labs support both majors and service level courses. Caldwell, the largest, consists of a 100 seat open area, a 40 seat instructional room and a 20 seat instructional room.
- Help - Help is available to users of the CSE computing environment in a variety of ways. One resource is the CSE Help pages. These pages provide links to FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), Newgroups, User Guides and information about how to use the CSE Help request system for system and software problems.
- Supported Software - Browse through a list of software which is supported within the CSE computing environment. Includes links to software documentation, notes and other references.
- Wireless Network - Wireless networking is provided by OSU Wireless.
- CSE Graders - CSE Graders assist faculty and instructors in grading labs and homeworks for many CSE courses. Both undergraduate and graduate students are hired as graders in CSE. This site contains detailed descriptions of all Grader levels/grades (I, II, and III) as well as application materials and support information.
- Tutors - Tutors assist CSE undergraduates with any questions they might have regarding their CSE coursework. The tutor list is provided solely as a convenience for students who are seeking tutoring assistance, but does not represent an endorsement of the abilities of tutors by the CSE department.
