IT Support

The Social Sciences Computing Facility (SSCF) offers a shared computing infrastructure and standard policies to all departments and programs in the School of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences Computing Facility

Services include:

• Data storage for business offices and research, including 5tb of free backed-up file storage for each faculty member
• Operating a compute cluster which is freely available to all school affiliates
• Provisioning virtual machines to host business and research applications
• Advising on IT infrastructure for research (both proposed and funded) and data handling sign-offs with IRB and funding agencies
• Desktop support for faculty, staff and graduate students
• Advising all affiliates on purchase, and we pay for and provide desktop and laptop computers to business office staff
• Security support and consulting for all students, faculty and staff affiliated with the school