Last but not least, the infrastructure that supports all of the aforementioned activities and workflows. In deference to the notion of presence, a portion of our physical infrastructure is housed directly in the Center, both for experimental configuration and for technical capability. This forms the ‘bulkhead’ of our network, a landing ground from which we service the lab, the production studio, the administrative offices, etc. Numerous additional resources are housed in the Green Data Center in University Hall and accessed through the campus network. Of particular emphasis is that while the physical plant of the Center is critical to its function, we are keenly aware of the need for our researchers and developers to operate from anywhere in the world, at any time. Our infrastructure allows us to provision virtual workstations, servers, and environments for experiments and production projects at a moment’s notice, to provide custom solutions to individual projects, and to serve these solutions world-wide. While the Center is grounded in Student Innovation Hall, it lives in the cloud, and is available to our students, faculty, staff, and partners throughout the world 24/7.
