Central
Email Service
The
Central Email Service (CES) provides e-mail services for the NIH community. To register for a CES account, go to Accounts
Management and choose Email Management.
Note: you must have an NIH NT Domain account in order to request
a CES account.
Windows
Core Services
Windows
Core Service offerings include NT, web and database hosting, print services
and domain name service. Go to Accounts
Management and choose NIH NT Domain/CES Account Management.
Parachute
Remote Access Service
Parachute allows authorized NIH staff to logon
to the NIH network and to e-mail from off-campus using a high-speed
modem and a standard telephone line.
An Account Sponsor can request a Parachute account for a user
through WebSponsor.
Enterprise
Systems
Use
of these systems is on a fee-for-service basis, with costs charged to
your CIT account. An Account
Sponsor can add users to an existing account through WebSponsor, or a new account can
be established by submitting a CIT Account Request form.
Titan Mainframe
Titan provides an efficient, reliable and economical computing environment,
and offers robust commercial products and tools.
EOS
(Unix) Systems
The Unix
environment (more than 70 servers referred to as EOS) is appropriate
for any important Unix-based application and has specific capabilities
for applications that use Oracle databases.
Windows
Hosting Services
Windows-based application servers at the NIH Computer Center provide
a computing environment suitable for critical, enterprise-wide applications.
Designed to minimize application disruption and provided on a cost
recovery basis, this service gives excellent value for enterprise
applications.
Helix Systems
The Helix
Systems supports high performance computing resources that are available
for use by the NIH research community. These resources provide access
to a wide range of software applications, installed on production computing
platforms. To assist researches in using and learning about these resources,
Helix Systems provides training, documentation, and consulting on these
resources. These applications are available to any NIH researcher who
has a Helix account. An Account Sponsor can register a user for
a Helix account through WebSponsor.
Advanced Laboratory Workstation (ALW) System
The ALW system is a general-purpose, open, distributed computing
system currently consisting of over 120 UNIX® workstation clients, 3
fileservers providing over 750GB of disk storage, and over 500 registered
users. All ALWs are interconnected
by the NIH campus-wide network, which they use to share resources and
access services such as file backup, software maintenance, applications
software, online documentation, electronic mail and news, computation
and database servers, printers, and an international distributed file
system. An Account Sponsor can register a user for an ALW account through
WebSponsor.
CIT support centrally-managed servers for Relational Database
Management Systems (RDBMSs) and associated products. RDBMSs provide
an efficient way to store large amounts of data by enabling you to
store data in individual tables (files) and combine the data in the
tables for reports and analyses. The current RDBMS servers available
to choose from are IBM's DB2 Server, ORACLE's Enterprise Server and
Microsoft's SQL Server. These
RDBMS servers can house a variety of data; for example, administrative,
budget, grants, personnel, and research data.
RDBMSs require a CIT account and initials for access to the
system. An Account Sponsor can add users to an account
through WebSponsor.
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