Computing Facilities - School of Computer Science

On Friday, November 13, 2009 The leased fiber lines connecting the Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh campus to the Pittsburgh Technology Center and 407 South Craig St. will be switched over to a new vendor. Details

Network maintenance scheduled for Gates Hillman Centers 8th and 9th floors

On Thursday, November 12, 2009 SCS Computing Facilities will be performing maintenance on the network switches used on the 8th and 9th floors of the Gates Hillman Centers Details

LINUX.GP operating system upgrade scheduled

On Thursday, November 5, 2009 SCS Computing Facilities will begin upgrading the Linux general purpose servers (linux.gp.cs.cmu.edu) from the current OS FC5 to F10. Details

Windows 7 Information Update

On October 22, 2009 Microsoft released the Windows 7 operating system. Vendors will be shipping new PCs with this new OS. SCS Computing Facilities does not currently support this new OS.

SCS Computing Facilities is currently testing this operating system with our standard baseline software.

Please contact help@cs.cmu.edu or call the SCS Help Desk (x8-4231) if you have questions regarding Windows 7 support.

Thank you for your attention,

SCS Help Desk

October Urgent: Critical Windows, Office and Adobe patches released

Microsoft released new patches for critical Windows and Microsoft Office vulnerabilities on October 13, 2009. Adobe also released patches for critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Details

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Information Update

Apple has recently released OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and all new Macs are shipping with this new OS. SCS Computing Facilities does not currently support this software release but will provide a best effort support until Mac OS X 10.6 is fully supported. Details

Change: SCS Computing Facilities GHC Help Desk temporary location

On Monday, August 31, 2009 the SCS Computing Facilities temporary GHC Help Desk will move into GHC 6109 and return to normal business hours of 9:00AM - 5:00PM Monday through Friday. Details

Hot topics

Announcement received concerning iPass connectivity

SCS Facilities has received an announcement from iPass concerning Dulles (IAD) and Reagan National (DCA) Airports, Washington DC, US Details

New Cisco VPN Client released for SCS users

SCS Computing Facilities has released a new version (5.05.290) of the Windows 2000, XP and Vista VPN client for 32 bit machines. Details

Symantec EndPoint Protection Available

SCS Computing Facilities is pleased to announce the introduction of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) as part of the Windows baseline software. SEP is similar to the Symantec Anti Virus (SAV) protection that has been part of the baseline for many years. Details

If you are new to SCS

Our introductory documentation has some information to help you get started, including the slides from the 2009 Facilities Immigration Course talks.