The University's mainframe computer is maintained by Information Technology Services (ITS).

Vanderbilt's computer resources available to students include 11 PC and Mac labs throughout campus and a computer classroom networked to supercomputer centers at Illinois and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The University is also part of the Internet 2 project.

School of Engineering computing:

The School of Engineering Distributed Computing Network (SEDCON) is a set of interconnected local area networks. Many of the computers attached to one of the SEDCON subnetworks are administered as a distributed computing resource referred to as the SEDCON Distributed Virtual Machine (DVM). The computers of the SEDCON DVM share databases describing users and other identifiable entities on the network.

SEDCON provides:

• Interactive login
• Electronic mail
• Anonymous ftp
• Web publishing
• Electronic file submissions
• Instructional Computing Laboratory

The School of Engineering is implementing the TransIT wireless laptop program, piloted in the fall semester of 2001 and to be fully implemented for incoming freshmen in fall 2002.

Each of the departments, programs and centers of the School of Engineering also maintain computer equipment and software specific to the discipline and the research being conducted.