Calendar 2001–02

Support Facilities, Services, and Staff Organizations 129 institutions and societies in Hong Kong and overseas. It has co-published books with other publishers and institutions, such as St. Martins, the SOAS of the University of London, and the university presses of Columbia, Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, and Washington. It has also entered into joint publication arrangements with commercial publishers in the US, the UK, mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, Japan, and Sweden. The Chinese University Press is a founding director of the Hong Kong Publishing Federation Ltd. and a member of the Association for Asian Studies, the International Association of Scholarly Publishers, and the Society for Scholarly Publishing. It is also an international member of the Association of American University Presses. Information Technology Services Centre The Information Technology Services Centre (ITSC) (website: http://www.cuhk . edu.hk/itsc ) offers a variety of services to support academic development, research, and administration. Its service arm does not stop at technical support and application or project development, but stretches to areas like system recommendation, acquisition, installation and subsequent maintenance. Key Services The ITSC provides seven key services to users: • basic computer resources; • programming consultation; • training seminars and user documentation on the use of computer systems and application packages; • microcomputer application support, technology transfer, office automation and research; • workstation support including advice on hardware selection and subsequent installation, user training, ongoing consultation and system administration; • evaluation, selection, and installation of network equipment; the monitoring of networking activities between the University and the rest of the world; and • development and maintenance of management information systems for the University administration. Computing Resources for Research, Teaching, Learning, and Administration To provide efficient services, the ITSC has multiplexed its computer facilities, which include • two high performance computing systems for research computing: a 24-CPU SGI Origin 2000 supercomputer and a 10-CPU SUN Enterprise 6500 supercomputer. The former is a server for numerically intensive computing while the latter serves data-intensive computing. • two UNIX servers which provide data library service, third-party commercial software packages, general UNIX applications, and Internet applications to