Office of the Vice Provost for IT:

• Welcome
• Advisory Committee
• Affiliations
• Employment
• IT Internships
• Facilities
• Mission
• News & Events
• Innovation
• Organization (CHART)
  • Administration, Planning, & Finance
  • Academic & Research Computing
  • Enterprise Applications
  • IT Security Office
  • Networking, Telecommunications, & Data Center
  • Systems, Architecture, & Infrastructure
• Policies
• Projects & Programs
• Service Level Agreements

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Reports:

• 2008 VPIT Report
• Help Desk Statistics

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IT

IT tutorials

Information Technology Affiliations

Information Technology develops strategic relationships with its peers and members of the greater community to advance the mission of the university. Collectively, the university is affiliated with the organizations listed below. Individually, many IT staff members are members of other professional organizations and initiatives.

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Networks

LEARN: Lonestar Education and Research Network
http://www.tx-learn.org
Rice is a member of LEARN, a partnership of 33 Texas institutions dedicated to bringing high-speed connectivity and competitive researching to the lone star state.

RENoH: Research and Education Network of Houston
This initiative between Rice, the medical center, University of Houston, and downtown locations supports research and educational efforts in Houston.

Texas GigaPOP
http://www.gigapop.gen.tx.us/index2.html
Texas GigaPOP provides high-speed interconnections among research-focused schools in Texas including Rice.

Internet 2
http://www.internet2.edu/
Internet 2 is a partnership of universities and corporations dedicated to bringing high-speed networking power to its members. Rice participates in the following Internet 2 initiatives: Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE), Shibboleth, The Internet2 Commons, and Abilene.

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Research

TIGRE: Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education
http://www.hipcat.net/Projects/tigre
TIGRE is a state-wide advanced computing grid for research and education being developed and deployed by TACC/UT in partnership with Rice University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, and the University of Houston. TIGRE is a project of the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

HiPCAT: High Performance Computing Across Texas
http://www.hipcat.net/
Rice is one member of this consortium of Texas institutions that use advanced computational technologies to enhance research, development, and educational activities.

ResearchChannel
http://www.researchchannel.org/
Rice is a participating member of the ResearchChannel, a media-based consortium of universities that broadcasts activities, ideas, and opportunities related to research.

SURA: Southeastern Universities Research Association
http://www.sura.org/
SURA is a research group of over sixty universities in the southeastern portion of the United States including Rice.

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Higher Education

Educause
http://www.educause.edu/
Educause is an organization which promotes higher learning through the improvement of IT services. Rice participates in many Educause initiatives, including Higher Education Bridge Certification Authority (HEBCA), PKI for Networked Higher Education, Middleware, the NMI-EDIT Consortium, the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service, the Technical Activities Group (HEPKI-TAG), and the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI).

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Houston

Greater Houston Partnership: Technology Infrastructure Task Force
http://www.houston.org/
The goal of the task force is to identify technology infrastructure enhancements that will foster the deployment and integration of products and services that produce life enhancing experiences for the general population in the greater Houston area.