CDM Department Server Infrastructure (CDM-021)

Summary 🔴 ?

• Owner Unit: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Sub-unit: School of Computing (department IT / server rooms)
• Content Type: infrastructure
• Campus/Location: Loop
• Last Verified: May 30, 2026

Description & capabilities

Department-level server and lab-compute infrastructure supporting CDM research labs, classrooms, and server rooms—distinct from the HPCC GPU cluster but part of the same research compute ecosystem.

Access status

• Level: red (Restricted Access)
• Rationale: Department server infrastructure is described in grant/facilities narratives without a public self-service access policy; typical use is restricted to SoC/IT-provisioned research and teaching accounts.
• Access URL: www.cdm.depaul.edu/academics/computing-and-digital-media/s…
• Verification date: 2026-05-30
• Source URLs:
• www.cdm.depaul.edu/academics/computing-and-digital-media/s…

Verification

• Status: needs_review (?)
• Confidence: 55/100
• Rationale: Department server inventory derives primarily from grant facilities drafts; no public operational page confirms current machine list or provisioning.
• Last verified: 2026-05-30
• Evidence:
• Equipment list from GRANTED/DiaBalance grant facilities text (May 2026 map pass)
• SoC page linked but without server-room public detail

Equipment

Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search (e.g. “3D printers”, “laser cutter”, “NMR”).

Category	Specific equipment
HPC and cloud infrastructure	Xeon-based multi-processor servers (7) with large RAID storage; IBM ES 9000/9221 (department server/mainframe-class system per grant facilities text)
Creative workstations	CDM general-purpose and classroom workstations (800+ across labs and classrooms)

Source: GRANTED Facilities DRAFT; Facilities-DiaBalance CDM server infrastructure (May 2026). Last verified: May 28, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

• Website: School of Computing (CDM)

Last verified: May 30, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

• Raffaella Settimi-Woods (Director) — rsettimi@cdm.depaul.edu · Profile

Source URL

data/GRANTED Facilities DRAFT.pdf; data/Facilities-DiaBalance.pdf.

Documented Relationships

Supports CDM research labs including CDM-011 (VIDA/MedIX/IMP); network/datacenter backbone via UNI-013; GPU AI workloads primarily on CDM-014.

Linked Relationship IDs

• CDM-011 - VIDA / MedIX / IMP Labs
• CDM-014 - High-Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC)
• UNI-013 - DePaul Research Network & Datacenters

Notes

Grant text references seven Xeon RAID servers and IBM ES 9000/9221; verify current production systems with CDM IT.