IIT Trivia

Here are some interesting little tidbits of information regarding IIT.

Historical Highlights

• In March of 1974, St. Olaf became the first site west of the Mississippi to run the UNIX operating system.
• St. Olaf was one of 12 founding members of the Minnesota Regional Network (MRNet).
• In September, 1988, St. Olaf was the first private/small college in Minnesota to connect to the “Internet.”
• First small college in the USA to have a web server (July 16, 1993). We joined a handful of colleges and universities such as MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Stony Brook, Michigan State, and UCLA.

IIT Personnel

• 22 Full Time Staff
  • 14% — Less than 5 Years of Service
  • 23% — 5 to 9 Years of Service
  • 27% — 10 to 14 Years of Service
  • 36% — 15+ Years of Service
• Approximately 8 FTE in Student Labor
  • 18 students full time in summer
  • 70 during academic year

The Campus

• 2015 Campus Computers
  • 33% Macs
  • 1% Linux
  • 66% PC
• 230 networked printers
• 46 public and 51 department labs on campus
• 20 academic departments have at least one computer lab
• 55 Smart Classrooms
• Moodle Campus Since June ’04

Equipment

• 37 servers running 7 different operating systems
• In 2005-06, purchased, set up, and installed 396 computers
• Backed up 68 terabytes (TB) of data stored in 157,186,318 files last year
• 4,246 user accounts
• In October, the St. Olaf home page was viewed 742,000 times — about 24,700 times per day or once every 3 seconds
• 21,372 HTML files or web pages on the web server. This doesn't include PDF's, images, or applications written in Cold Fusion (like SIS).

Mail

• Approximately 27,000 (non-spam) mail messages on any given day
• The system blocks 243,000 messages identified as spam on any given day
• 23,950,000 mail messages — 19.9 million/month or 63,666 daily — delivered in 2005.
  • In 1991 we boasted that just over 2000 mail messages were processed daily.
• Systems Management (root) received 43,656 e-mail messages (3,600/month) in 2005. In October 2006, Systems Management dealt with 4,419 messages.

Student Body

• 97% of the students reported that they owned a computer on the Fall ’06 student computing survey
• 77% of the students own a laptop
• Macintosh ownership climbed to 26%; higher in 1st year students
• 39% of the students own a printer
• 86% of the students reported that they rely on the St. Olaf provided computing labs