SJSU IT Tips – Virtual Labs

Campus Community,

Planning out Fall courses and need a computer lab for your students with advanced software? Instead of a room full of machines, consider a Virtual Lab.

SJSU IT’s Virtual Labs feature desktops and applications hosted by a remote service over the internet. This allows students, faculty, and researchers to access certain labs or software at any time, from anywhere, reducing the need to be on campus to access a computer lab. Plus, deploying a virtual lab is faster and cheaper than a traditional physical lab.

If you think a Virtual Lab would be a good fit for your instructional needs, Submit a Request Form. An SJSU IT staff member will reach out to you and get the process started.

Thank you, Tristan Orlino, SJSU IT Senior Identity and Security Administrator, for supporting Virtual Labs for our university and providing this tip. And thank you T.G. Tran, Senior Systems Analyst Lead with College of Engineering, for contributing to this tip. As always, the SJSU IT Service Desk is here to help by phone at (408) 924-1530 or online.

Thanks,
Bob Lim
Vice President for Information Technology
and CIO at San Jose State University

Division-wide Microaggression Workshop

Colleagues,

The SJSU IT DEI Committee has partnered with the SJSU Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) to provide microaggression workshops for our entire division. This workshop was attended by division MPPs last year. It was highly engaging and resonated with the culture of inclusivity we’re building. I want to thank the DEI Committee for recommending we partner with ODEI and expand the workshops to all staff – extra kudos to DEI committee members Ryan Campbell and Maggie Panahi for spearheading this effort. Thanks to the DEI committee’s work, we’ll be the first division in the university to offer an ODEI workshop division-wide.

The workshop reviews the science behind microaggressions, cognitive empathy, and bias pathways in our thinking within our relationships in the workplace. It explores and emphasizes our roles in developing an actively inclusive climate. It also addresses concerns identified by employees in the SJSU Campus Climate and Belonging work and assessments. Workshops will be available during five sessions so that everyone will have the opportunity to attend.

Workshop Date RSVP Deadline
May 4, 2023 April 27, 2023
May 11, 2023 May 4, 2023
June 1, 2023 May 25, 2023
June 22, 2023 June 15, 2023
July 20, 2023 July 13, 2023

I strongly encourage everyone to attend this workshop – please work with your area’s senior leader to determine which session works best for you and your team.

Thank you
Bob-

Ed-al-Fitr

Colleagues,

The Festival of Eid-al-Fitr, the Festival of Fast-breaking, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The holiday celebrates the conclusion of the 29 or 30 days Dawn-to-Sunset fasting during the whole month of Ramadan. Eid Mubarak to all who are celebrating today and throughout the weekend with your families and friends.

For more information about the history of Ramadan: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/eid-al-fitr

Best Regards,
The SJSU IT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

Norma Brown

Ryan Campbell

Tino Cruz

Kara Li

Bob Lim

Matthew Loo

Maggie Panahi

Willie Simon

SJSU IT Tips – Accelerate Your Research with HPC

Campus Community,

Want to accelerate your big data, AI, or Machine Learning research and power past computation roadblocks?

Here’s a tip for you: SJSU IT has collaborated with the College of Engineering and College of Science to build a robust High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure to accelerate research. SJSU IT has a dedicated HPC administrator to support you – spend more time building data models and less time troubleshooting. If you’re interested in accessing HPC resources for your research, simply Open a Help Ticket and enter “HPC” as your reason for submitting. We’ll work with you to design a solution that meets your HPC needs.

Advanced research is already happening on campus thanks to the power of HPC, including the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center’s wildfire science data and modeling. HPC supports some of the most compute- and memory-intensive programs developed today, and it might be able to accelerate your work, too. See what HPC can do for you – submit a ticket today.

Thank you, Tien Tran, our HPC administrator, and Keith Nowosielski, IT Systems Specialist, for managing HPC environments and providing this tip to campus. As always, the SJSU IT Service Desk is here to help by phone at (408) 924-1530 or online.

Thanks,
Bob Lim
Vice President for Information Technology
and CIO at San Jose State University

SJSU IT Tips – eduroam

Campus Community,

Managing guest WiFi networks every time you visit another university or community college adds one more barrier to collaborating with research partners, scouting grad schools, or visiting and colleagues. Here’s a tip to make your life easier: Because SJSU is part of eduroam, you can use your SJSU login and password to join WiFi at thousands of higher education institutions around the world.

Eduroam is an international roaming service that has thousands of participating universities, libraries, and other learning institutions, including over 2,000 participating networks across the United States, with many throughout the SF Bay Area and California. Students, faculty, and staff can connect to a secure network in many major cities worldwide using their SJSU login with eduroam.

Use this interactive map to find eduroam networks, either where you are or where you’re going. To navigate the map, select the continent, then region, then zoom to the location where you want to look. When connecting to eduroam WiFi, select the network named “eduroam” and use your SJSU email address and password to login – simple!

Thank you Rong Wang, our Network Analyst, for supporting our campus community and providing these tips. As always, the SJSU IT Service Desk is here to help by phone at (408) 924-1530 or online.

Thanks,
Bob Lim
Vice President for Information Technology
and CIO at San Jose State University