Overview of Biostatistics IT Services

Biostatistics Information Technology Resources

29 October 2008

What's the IT email list again? biostat-it@list.vanderbilt.edu : Email addressed here will go to all of the IT team members in Medical Center North. The first person available and competent to answer will do so.

Biostatistics

Selected applications and services

• twiki - The department's web site is a wiki. A wiki is "a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language". The particular type of wiki that we use is called "TWiki". TWiki is described as "a flexible, powerful, secure, and simple web-based collaboration platform". We use TWiki as the tool for the development and maintenance of virtually all content on the department's web site. There is a comprehensive user's guide and information about all the plug-in on the Welcome to TWiki page. We recommend that you read it. (Dale)

• webcalendar - WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application. With appropriate configuration, WebCalendar is a schedule management system for a single person, a schedule management system for a group of people, and an events schedule that anyone can view. (dale)

• Computing Clinic (dale) - A Discussion Forum for Anything Related to Computing and Linux.

• email lists (dale)

• datahippo - Data Hippo is a file transfer service which provides end to end encryption to multiple recipients. The service provides file transfer expiration times and only allow each recipient one download. Data-Hippo notifies the uploader when ever a recipient downloads a file. Upon file expiration the upload receives an email listing which recipients did not download the file. (thomas)

• ACCRE (parallel processing) (zhouwen)

• survey tool - simple survey tool (cole)

• Dbconnect - department database; tracks personnel info, projects, book/supply requests, vacation time, recognition and rewards (cole)

• Big TV - HallwayDisplay (jeff)

• rapache (jeff)

• instant messaging (jeremy)

• Optimization (jeremy)

Who can help with what?

Code/Scripts

Servers

• biostat - a custom built system with two Intel Xeon processors, 3 GB of main memory, and 160 GB of mirrored disk storage. This system hosts the department's web site and calendar.
• biostat2 - this system is dedicated to running the Win4Lin? system.
• biostat3 - this system performs the daily backups of the department's workstations.
• statcomp - a custom built system with two 64-bit AMD Opteron 250 (2.4 GHz) processors, 16 GB main memory, 250 GB of mirrored disk storage. This system acts as a compute server. Its primary purpose is to run jobs written in the R programming language that need fast processors and/or large amounts of memory. The server's operating system is 64-bit Linux.
• data - a custom built system with two 64-bit AMD Opteron (2.0 GHz) processors, 4 GB main memory, 200 GB of mirrored disk storage. This system acts as a database and web server. The server's operating system is 64-bit Linux. This system hosts some web applications.