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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Did you know? The school of Computer Science has five undergraduate computer labs that BCS students can use in the Herzberg building: SCS Computer Labs HP3115 and HP4115 can be used as study space and group work by anyone registered in a COMP course. COMP students can also use HP4155 when its free. Third... More
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
The School of Computer Science opened its newly renovated Teaching Assistant (TA) laboratory during their Open House on Tuesday September 19, 2023. The university has invested in upgrading the undergraduate Computer Science labs and resources. The changes include a renovated TA center and BCS laboratories as well as further investment in the SCS... More
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
This most directly impacts students who are using the SCS Openstack, as the SCS Openstack can only be accessed via a Carleton network. So from home you are required to use VPN to access the SCS... More
Thursday, September 8, 2022
The SCS Linux network hosts have been updated to Xubuntu 22.04. The SCS linux network has been part of the school for more than 20 years! If you are a BCS student and taking a COMP course then you can use the SCS Linux network! Find out... More
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
We strongly advise all Carleton students and employees use Carleton email for Carleton business. We discourage forwarding Carleton email or communicating via a non-Carleton email provider. It is important for students to communicate via their Carleton email so that faculty and staff know the authenticity of the sender. Secondly non-Carleton emails... More
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
With the tremendous growth in computer science the School of Computer Science has made a notable investment in the OpenStack cloud platform. OpenStack is used by some SCS courses to provide students with their computing needs. Upper year courses have the option of learning to program OpenStack GPU servers. This year students can utilize... More
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Did you know that the SCS has a number of labs that can be used by Comp. Sci. students? If you are currently registered in a COMP course your campus card will give you access to HP4115 and for Sr. undergrads HP5151. The labs are a great place for group work or study in... More
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Symptoms of the VirtualBox macOS Security and Access Problems Cause of the Problem Solutions to the Problem Accessing Security & Privacy Settings SOLUTION 1: Allow Identified Apps to Access the System SOLUTION 2: Modify VirtualBox Permissions SOLUTION 3: Clean Re-install of VirtualBox Still Experiencing Problems? Symptoms of the VirtualBox... More
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The School of Computer Science is investing in GPU computing with a purchase of a new GPU server that will facilitate running of undergraduate courses that require GPU computing. The new GPU server scheduled to come online in the Fall of 2019 will have eight 'GeForce RTX 2018 Super' video cards. The server will... More
Monday, February 25, 2019
Microsoft Imagine gives students access to Microsoft professional-level products, particularly developer tools and operating systems, free of charge. Microsoft has re-branded their free software offer to Educational STEM departments as "Azure Dev. Tools for Teaching". You can now download the Microsoft Software directly from their Azure web store:... More
Monday, September 24, 2018
The School of Computer Science have invested resources into GPU computing by purchasing the world's most powerful Volta-based graphics card made for the PC. The NVIDIA Titan V GPU cards will be used by Carleton University Data Science courses in the areas of Big Data, Machine Learning, Artifical Intelligence, computer vision and related fields.... More
Monday, September 17, 2018
For Fall 2018 the School of Computer Science have introducing a new SCS data cloud service called Nextcloud. The idea is to integrate access to all storage in one place. The Nextcloud service allows Computer Science Faculty, TAs, Lab Coordinators and Students to manage all their data from one place. Users will be able... More
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