Computing Facilities
We provide excellent computing facilities for all our students and deliver expert support to help you use them.
Each student has a personal University e-mail address, free access to the internet - and can even publish their own web pages! There are 40 clusters around the University, two of the largest are The Old Library and The Robinson Library. Computing facilities include:
- 1,400 fully networked Windows XP computers in 44 clusters/groups plus hundreds of computers owned by academic schools
- exceptionally speedy campus network and internet connections (we are one of the primary sites for the academic SuperJANET network)
- access to word processing, statistical and database packages, internet, e-mail, central filestore and print services
- a Unix service with several powerful central systems via Linux workstations
- an extensive range of software, for teaching, research and personal development
- cluster rooms across campus are open each weekday, (and there's one in Henderson Hall, and Castle Leazes Halls of residence)
- some cluster rooms are also open for extended hours and at weekends (some are open 24 hours)
- you can connect to the University's network using your own computer - access in accommodation has been improved so that 90% of all residences have internet connection, or through laptop docking stations and wireless access points across campus
Our Postgraduates have unique access to first class computing facilities in our new dedicated postgraduate computer room. They are also able to borrow laptops for research trips.