The Virtual Computing Lab featured in May '08 Chronicle of Higher Education.

 "A Computer Lab That Students Use but Never See"

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

An excerpt of the article

North Carolina State University may never build another computer lab.

Instead the university has installed racks of equipment in windowless rooms where students and professors never go.

The project is called the Virtual Computing Lab, and users enter it remotely, from their own computers in dormitory rooms or libraries. They get all the features they've had in the past, including access to expensive software packages, like 3-D modeling tools and advanced statistical programs, that they need for courses. But now the programs run on powerful computer servers behind the scenes, instead of on desktop PC's. And this lab never closes.

NCSU’s Virtual Computing Lab: A Cloud Computing Solution

North Carolina State University’s Virtual Computing Lab cost-effectively and efficiently delivers diverse computing resources over the Internet to more than 30,000 students and faculty.

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August 29, 2007

The Computerworld Honors Program Recognizes NC State as a 2007 Laureate for the Virtual Computing Laboratory Project

The Computerworld Honors Program (www.cwhonors.org) recognized North Carolina State University as a 2007 Laureate in the category of education for its Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL) project in a medal ceremony at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on June 4. Samuel F. Averitt, vice provost for information technology at NC State, and Dr. Mladen A. Vouk, professor and head of computer science and associate vice provost for information technology at NC State, accepted the medal on behalf of the university. Each year the Computerworld Honors Program recognizes people, organizations and institutions from around the world for their visionary applications of information technology.

7/02/2009

NC State Recognized as a 2009 Laureate for Cloud Computing Services

The Computerworld Honors Program recognized NC State University as a 2009 Laureate in the Education category for its VCL-based Cloud Computing Services case study in a medal ceremony at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on June 1, 2009.

Each year the Computerworld Honors Program recognizes people, organizations and institutions from around the world whose visionary application of information technology promotes positive social and economic progress.

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