Cranfield Campus IT Services
The IT Department provides a computing service for all students and staff on the Cranfield and Silsoe campuses.
When you arrive on Campus, please come to see us. We will help you use the computing facilities. All students are given a personal computer account, email address, network drive, personal space on the web server and free access to the Internet.
Close links with industry
Cranfield is proud of the close links it has with industry. We understand the need to provide excellent computing facilities to enhance our relationships with industry. The software and services provided over the Campus network are available up to 24 hours a day, throughout the year.
Excellent facilities:
- Over 500 modern workstations distributed across Schools, IT Department, Kings Norton Library, and halls of residence.
- Ten Gigabit campus backbone network
- Free Internet access with network points in residential accommodation
- Wireless connection on the Cranfield campus
- One Gigabit data link to the Internet
- Extranet/VPN allowing access for students working remotely
- HP XC High Performance Computing cluster (856 processor) and a computational grid of 30 compute servers (120 processors).
- Wide portfolio of leading commercial software packages
- Approved Test Centre for the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)
- Skilled IT service desk providing support on university IT systems and connecting students’ personal laptops
