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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The Office of the Vice-President, Research International (OVPRI) and Information Technology Services (ITS) are pleased to announce the launch of Research Computing Services (RCS) ShareFile. This online file sharing platform provides Carleton researchers and their teams with 500 GB of secure on-campus storage for their research data. An assessment... More
Friday, June 26, 2020
The Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) (OVPRI) and Information Technology Services (ITS) are collaborating on a number of initiatives to enhance IT support for researchers. Initiatives Completed Over the past two years, ITS and OVPRI have collaborated to deliver on the following initiatives: Andrew Schoenrock accepted the... More
Friday, March 1, 2019
It is with deep sadness that we inform the Carleton community of the death of Sylvain Pitre, Manager, Research Computing Services, who passed away on Feb. 23, 2019, after a brief illness. Sylvain joined the ITS team in 2014 to develop and lead the Research Computing Services (RCS) team providing researchers with the support,... More
Monday, January 7, 2019
This special edition of Spotlight on IT focuses on some of the great work done in our IT department over the past year. We wanted to share what we have been up to in our efforts to support and grow IT at Carleton University. We have just released our 2018 Year in Review. This report... More
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
The Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) (OVPRI) and Information Technology Services (ITS) are collaborating on a number of initiatives to enhance IT support for researchers. New Software Licensing Agreements Carleton has acquired new university-wide licenses for the IBM SPSS software and NVivo Plus. Both are now available... More
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Welcome to Carleton’s ITS newsletter, Spotlight on IT. We spotlight different trends and topics in the information technology world. If you know someone who would like to receive this newsletter send them here to subscribe! The age of driverless vehicles is quickly moving from futuristic dream to present-day reality. This month’s Spotlight is... More
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
November 30th was Carleton’s Quality Showcase. Although our representatives, Todd Switzer and Sylvain Pitre, were unable to present, ITS had a poster on display showcasing two services we offer to faculty and researchers: myDesktop and the Research Computing and Development Cloud. The first, MyDesktop, enables easy access to course-related... More
Friday, September 23, 2016
Tapping into the resources offered by the Research Computing Services team, Bruce Wallace and Phil Masson in Systems and Computer Engineering were able to quickly process large amounts of research data and nearly eliminate time consuming manual input. They were working with 350GB of input data and predicted that processing it was going to... More
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Earlier this month, I sat down with Sylvain Pitre, Manager of Research Computing Services, to talk about what he and his team do for Carleton researchers. What is it that your team does? The three of us, Andrew, Blake and I, help faculty and students who are working on projects with advanced research computing... More
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