COMPUTER CENTER
Seyit Koçberber, Ph.D., Director
The Bilkent
Computer Center (BCC) provides a variety of computing
resources and services to meet the administrative, educational and
research computing requirements in the university community. These
services include providing computational, networking, and internetworking
equipment, their hardware
and software maintenance, maintenance of software resources such as
compilers, utilities and application programs. Additionally, BCC
develops in-house application software for the university itself
including the academic information system, student information
system and others.
Hardware Resources
Workstation and PC Laboratories
There are approximately 4,000 personal computers distributes in offices and
laboratories throughout the campus and around 3,000 student computers in the
dormitories; all connected to BILNET. BCC maintains 15 general purpose computer
labs, populated with around 600 computers in total, for student and staff use.
All users have access to laser printers and to the Internet.
In addition to the BCC labs, many departments, schools and institutes maintain
their individual educational and research labs.
Networking Capabilities
The campus network is built on a Gigabit Ethernet backbone. This star
topology backbone connects all the faculties to the central switch via
fiber-optic cables.
Wireless network access points are scattered around the campus providing
hot spots for the mobile users.
All students and faculty are authorized to have accounts for
their e-mail and their access to the resources in the labs.
Dorm Net
Bilkent University's networking facilities are extended to the
dormitories as well.
All campus dormitory rooms are wired for the Ethernet and students living
in the dormitories can connect their own computers to BILNET and
the Internet.
Software Resources
BCC provides and maintains a wide variety of scientific tools at
the users' disposal. These include statistical, mathematical,
simulation libraries and packages together with various VLSI and
graphics design tools and imaging tools. All modern and classical
programming languages and development tools are available in various
hardware platforms. State-of-the-art word processors, spreadsheets,
database application software and presentation graphics software
are available in most of the labs.
Some software developed in-house are also available to faculty,
students and staff. The most widely used ones being
AIRS (Academic Information Review System),
SRS (Student Review
System), and
DAIS (Department Academic Information System).
These are the most important tools to help the faculty and
students in planning their course loads and academic preferences.
ORS (Online Registration System) enables students to see and
register to offered courses.
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