The CIS department is full of cutting edge IT, from the state-of-the-art workstations found throughout our labs to specialized research equipment such as the visualization wall and the 128-node Olympus cluster, the fastest computer in the state of Alabama. Here you will find information on all of our facilities, including how to get access to them and take advantage of the resources available to you here at UAB CIS.
The CIS Department has a wide array of facilities and equipment. Attached is a document that provides an overview of the department's IT and how it relates to the campus IT as a whole.
Janet Tatum maintains a set of documents that contain the lab room schedules for the current semester. They can be found at the following link:
The attached document contains the list of officially supported software on our Windows lab machines. Please reference it to see if the required software is available.
If you require software that is not currently on the list, please contact the CIS Helpdesk with justification of why you need the new product or version, cost information if available, funding source if available, and for which class or research the software is needed. While we cannot guarantee that any particular request will be met, we do try to accomodate all legitimate software needs. Requests should not come from students; please have your faculty advisor make the request.
Note that it may take up to four weeks from the time a software upgrade is approved until the time it is available on the machines. Please plan accordingly.