Campus Tours
Two tours will be offered during the Winter 2011 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs; descriptions of each follow, along with a link to "register" for one or more of these free tours. Tours will be offered at three times, each; if there is not sufficient interest (15 or more registrants at a given time/date), they will be cancelled.
Clemson University NOC and main Data Center, located in the Information Technology Center
http://www.clemson.edu/ccit/about/departments/spfara/facilities/itc/index.html
The NOC @ Clemson is staffed 24/7/365 and is co-located with the main data center. Clemson has a unique resource in its data center:
- Over 20,000 sq feet of raised floor
- 4.5Mw of power
- Generator backupChilled water cooling (over 500tons)
- A condo linux cluster consisting of
- over 1500 nodes (dual socket quad core)
- over 500TB disk storage
- Over a PB of tape storage
- IBM mainframe
- Hundreds of servers
- Dual/diverse fiber connections to the building
REGISTER for a NOC/Data Center Tour ON-SITE at the Registration Desk.
Clemson University Football Stadium (Death Valley) and a demo of the iTiger application.
http://clemsontigers.cstv.com/ot/clemson360/index.html (click on the Football icon for virtual tour)
The iTiger application is provided via wireless coverage in the stadium and provides the following for all home football games (accessed on personal iPhones or smart phones):
- Live stats and clock, updated in sync with the scoreboard
- Instant video replays as shown on the giant video replay screen and synced with audio from the radio broadcast
- Video replays by Quarter for all home games since iTiger inception
- Team and Player Stats for all home games since iTiger inception
REGISTER for a Tour of the Clemson University Football Stadium ON-SITE at the Registration Desk.
There are two free Clemson iPhone and mobile phone apps. One is a self-guided walking tour of campus (GPS enabled, so it knows where you are) and the other has all kinds of Clemson-related stuff. They are:
Clemson University self-guided tour - iPhone app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clemson-university-tour/id379282791?mt=8
m.Clemson: http://m.clemson.edu/ (includes info on Athletics, Events, maps, videos, news, images, safety info, Clemson iTunes channel, etc.)