During October, OIT, Facilities Management, and Design and Construction Services completed the process of expanding the OIT Data Center (OITDC) facility in Engineering Gateway. The OITDC consolidates systems from the Law Building Data Center (LBDC) and saves the campus energy and money. It also allows the space formerly occupied by the LBDC to be used to meet the needs of the Law School.
Focus has now turned to improving engineering aspects of the data center (power, cooling, and control systems).
OIT is also redesigning housing and planning expanded capacity for the cluster systems hosted in the OITDC (HPC and GreenPlanet). These projects are expected to continue into 2014.