Welcome to ICERM's Documentation Website!

This site is our centralized repository of documentation and user guides for all of ICERM's technical systems, including internet access, printing, and computing resources. 

 If you are just arriving to ICERM, please take a moment to read through the rest of this page for a brief overview of the technical resources available. 

 

 

 

 

 

 General IT Resources 

 

 Wireless Access, Printing, Brown ID Cards, and Office Technology 

 

 

 

 

 Oscar HPC 

 

 Usage of Brown's High-Performance Computing Cluster  

 

 

 

 Virtual Workshop Resources 

 

 Resources for running successful virtual and hybrid events at ICERM. 

 

 

 

 

 

 AV Systems 

 

 Audio-visual Systems User Guides 

 

 

 

 

 Cube 

 

 The Cube User Guide 

 

 

 

 Policies 

 

 ICERM and Brown IT Policies 

 

 

 

 

 

 Internet Access 

 Short-term/Workshop Visitors 

 For attendees of ICERM workshops and other short-term visits of less than two weeks, the  Brown-Guest  wireless network is available for use without a password. Please be aware that Brown’s guest wireless network is unencrypted and bandwidth is limited. You cannot access library resources and some other Brown resources using Brown-Guest, and some types of traffic are restricted. 

 The  eduroam  network is also available here at ICERM. Participants must set up eduroam first through their home institutions in order to use it at ICERM and other Brown facilities. 

 Long-term/Semester Visitors 

 All long-term visitors who will be at ICERM for at least two weeks are provided with a Brown account and ID card. Along with access to various Brown University services, this Brown user account will provide you with access to Brown's secure wireless network  Brown . See the  Wireless Access  page for step-by-step setup instructions. 

 

 

 Printing & Scanning 

 Public Printing Terminals 

 Printing is available for visitors from the Chromeboxes by the reception desk on the 11th floor. These devices will allow you to print from any website or from a USB drive. 

 Printing from your Laptop 

 ICERM's three public printers are also enabled for wireless printing and are accessible from the Brown, Brown-Guest, and eduroam wireless networks . Detailed information about our printers and their locations and capabilities are available on the Printing at ICERM page . In addition, operating system specific instructions are available for macOS , Windows , and Linux . 

 Scanning 

 The ICERM copy machine (located behind the reception desk) is a multi-function copier that's able to scan papers to PDF and email them directly to you. Feel free to ask any staff for assistance with using the scanner. 

 

 

 Computing Resources 

 High-Performance Computing 

 Long-term visitors to ICERM are provided with an exploratory account on the  Oscar high performance computing cluster  maintained by Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization . Oscar access may also be provided to short-term visitors on a case-by-case basis with justification and advance notice. See the  Oscar High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPC) section of this site for details on how to use Oscar.