Information Technology Department
Fast Facts
Quick HSPH IT Numbers
- 3500 email accounts
- 2200 novell accounts
- 1500 hsph research accounts
- 250 student laboratory computers
- 55 kiosk computers
- 45 AV-equipped classrooms and conference rooms
- 100 managed servers
- 10 TB of disk space under management
- 20 Helpdesk tickets closed daily
How Much Spam Does HSPH Receive?
HSPH IT prevents more than 1.5 million pieces of spam from being delivered each year. This represents roughly 46 percent of all email traffic and currently more than 100,000 pieces daily. Spam is quarantined and summarized for users daily. Users may whitelist messages that are incorrectly quarantined. Viruses are immediately deleted protecting the community from unwanted interruptions in their work.
Live daily and cumulative statistics may be found on the GroupWise email page. Email statistics are pulled from the new Email Quarantine System every hour.
No Time for Downtime!
Each day the main HSPH website is visited on average by more than 22,000 unique visitors that view more than 120,000 web pages. More than 5 GB of data is distributed around the world daily. Monthly and yearly cumulative statistics are provided to site webmasters.

Research Computing
HSPH's high performance research cluster pools together the resources of 262 2.33 GHz Zeon processors with 660 GB of RAM making one supercomputer.