All services

C

MFCF desktop services for staff members including the rollover program

D

Departmental shared file storage for staff

E

External resources including the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada, SciNet and SHARCNET), Dropbox and Evernote

F

File storage for faculty, staff and graduate students

The Math Faculty Computing Facility (MFCF) provides a server to host Filemaker databases used by members of the Faculty of Mathematics. The server hardware (virtual or physical), operating system, and installation of Filemaker Server is managed by MFCF.  Users run Filemaker Pro on their machines and connect to the databases from the client machines.

G

Accounts used by departments to share files or mailboxes

MFCF has eight high-end laptops and an external GPU enclosure for short-term loans to researchers interested in exploring GPU computing before committing to an expensive workstation.

List of graduate orientation PDFs. 

List of the GPU computing resources offered by the Math Faculty Computing Facility (MFCF)

J

Interactive documents with live code

L

Linux research servers for tasks that need complex computing resources, such as GPU servers and HPC clusters.

MFCF Linux servers for faculty, staff and graduate students, including linux.math, biglinux.math, fastlinux.math

Software environment on Linux servers

M

MFCF computer labs in the Mathematics & Computing Building (MC)

List of computing services provided to Math Faculty staff.

MFCF provides limited support for those who use Microsoft Power Platform tools (Power Automate and Power BI) to automate work flows or build reports from data.  MFCF staff are not experts in all the features available but can help with getting started and establishing good practices for creating and managing flows. 

MFCF is providing equipment and help documents to run mixed-mode courses.

P

Creating a personal website

MFCF printing services for faculty, staff and graduate students

MFCF printing services for undergraduate students

R

Interactive web applications using R

Information on the standard faculty, staff and graduate student computing accounts

Consultation with MFCF for purchase of research equipment

S

MFCF provided mathematical, productivity and programming software on managed machines and servers

MFCF provided mathematical, productivity and programming software on managed Macs

MFCF provided mathematical, productivity and programming software on managed machines and servers for undergraduate students.

This is the SLA for the dedicated web server for accessing the graduate student database. The web server will be hosted by MFCF for the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (SAS)

Information on the standard graduate and undergraduate student computing accounts

File storage for instructors, graduate and undergraduate students

MFCF Linux servers for teaching used by undergraduate students and graduate students

MFCF Windows servers for undergraduate students

V

Accounts given to short-term visitors of the Faculty of Mathematics

W

Windows desktop computer with nVidia GPU

MFCF Windows servers for faculty, staff and graduate students.

This includes a GPU server for small to medium scale computing.

Accessing ethernet connections for your laptop on campus

Accessing the wireless network on campus

Articles on accessing MFCF resources from home

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MFCF provides full lifecycle support of Windows, macOS, Thin Clients, and Linux computer platforms

The Teaching Labs are available for use by conference attendees

MFCF Help is the customer contact for computing support from MFCF

MFCF provides full lifecycle support of network printers used by the non-student community

The central research environment includes the service of providing Linux computing resources that can be accessed from multiple platforms

MFCF will assist researchers who buy their own equipment

Windows Remote Desktop Services (including Remote Application Services) provides users access to Windows computing resources from multiple platforms

Storage is provided for home folders and departmental network drives depending on the intended use for teaching, research, or administration

MFCF provides full lifecycle support of teaching labs

The teaching environment includes the service of providing Linux computing resources that can be accessed from multiple platforms

Windows remote desktop services (including remote application services) provides users access to Windows computing resources from multiple platforms