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Overview of IT Resources at ICERM

Welcome to ICERM's documentation site. 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 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 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 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 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 network Brown. See the the Wireless Access  page for step-by-step setup instructions.

Printing & Scanning

Public Printing Terminals

Printing is available for visitors from the the IGEL thin client client terminals by the reception desk on the 11th floor and across from the 10th floor classroom. The The thin clients clients will allow you to print from any website or from a USB drive. Basic instructions for using the thin clients are available in the the IGEL Thin Clients  section of this wiki.

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 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

Office Technology

ICERM provides provides thin clients  in all 10th floor offices as well as in the common areas for visitor use. The The IGEL thin clients run a custom thin version of Linux and provide open access to a web browser, SSH terminal and printing capability. Thin clients in the 10th floor offices also have the Oscar VNC client  available for access to the the Oscar High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPC).

High-Performance Computing

Long-term visitors to ICERM are provided with an exploratory account on the the Oscar high performance computing cluster  maintained by Brown'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 the Oscar High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPC)  section of this site for details on how to use Oscar.