Open Computing Facility
The Open Computing Facility is a student organization at the University of California, Berkeley, and a chartered program of the Associated Students of [the University of California|ASUC]. Founded in
1989, the OCF is an all-volunteer, student-run organization dedicated to providing free and accessible computing resources to all members of the University community.
The mission of the OCF is "to
provide an environment where no member of Berkeley's campus community
is denied the computer resources he or she seeks, to appeal to all
members of the Berkeley campus community with unmet computing
needs, and to provide a place for those interested in computing to
fully explore that interest."
The OCF provides the following services, among others, to UC
Berkeley students, staff, alumni, and affiliates:
- A 30-seat computer lab with Linux workstations, 4K monitors, and mechanical keyboards
- Webhosting for individuals and student groups
- Linux shell access
- Email forwarding
- Free printing quotas for lab users
- Access to a high-performance computing cluster featuring modern NVIDIA GPUs
- Software mirrors of popular Linux distributions and open source projects, available over rsync, http, and https
- A Linux systems administration DeCal
its board meeting minutes,
tech talks,
and Unix system administration DeCal materials
online for all to see and use.