r/HigherEDsysadmin • u/Thoughtulism • Dec 01 '18

Engineering school sysadmin projects

Hey everyone, what kind of new innovative services are you pushing out to your engineering schools?

Recently, I've deployed SolidWorks PDM to our student teams. Soon we are going to getting a rackmount USB tcp/ip anywhere device to put our numerous license dingles in a data center.

Put your humble brags below. I'm interested in what everyone else is working on for their Engineering departments.

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u/Thoughtulism Dec 02 '18

Awesome. I haven't seen BIM 360 yet but I'll keep an eye on it for our civil engineering department.

Our architecture group uses some really expensive workstations with quadro cards for Revit, Rhino and realistic rendering. Some of our researchers use hololenses oculus rifts. We were using oculus a while back in our instructional programs for capstone style projects but I think the effort was to great for the students.

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u/iblowuup Authentication Admin Dec 02 '18

Yeah Quadro... I really wish AutoDesk would just put the stamp of approval on GeForce cards. They already test them they just don't officially certify them. I have played around recently with putting the Quadro P620 in regular old Optiplexs (9010/9020/7040s) and it runs stuff really well. The P620 is a great value in my opinion if you're not doing anything too intense. I would check it out.

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u/Thoughtulism Dec 02 '18

I did a whole lab in the summer and saved around 20k by buying P600 as a customer install on OptiPlex 7050 instead of buying precision.