Equipment

This is a list of the major computing equipment available in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather an indication of the scope and breadth of the CSE physical facilities.

Latest update: Sept 2006

Instructional Facilities

The CSE department operates its own facilities for instruction in courses at the 200-level and above.

Login servers

• Sun Sparc running Solaris
  • arctic (instructional use only - no long or intense jobs). Sun Fire V240 with 2 x 1 Ghz UltraSPARC IIi processors, and 4 GB of RAM.
  • pacific. Sun Enterprise 6000 (thirty 250 mhz processors) with 7 GB of RAM.
• PC Architecture running Debian Linux
  • adriatic (instructional use only - no long or intense jobs). Sun Fire V20z with 2 x Opteron processors with 4 GB of RAM.
  • black. Sun Fire V40z with 4 x dual-core Opteron processors with 16 GB RAM

• atlantic. Sparc Sun Fire V240 (dual 1 Ghz UltraSPARC processors). 4 GB memory. DNS, departmental web server
• bering. Sparc Sun Fire V240 (dual 1 Ghz UltraSPARC processors). 2 GB memory. Applications software and license server.
• dbsrv2. Linux Intel Pentium Pro (200mhz). 64 MB memory. Linux database server.
• sargasso. Linux Sun Fire V20z with 2 x Opteron processors with 4 GB of RAM. NIS master, DNS master, Samba.
• rheic. Linux Sun Fire V20z with 2 x Opteron processors with 4 GB of RAM. Cups print server, NIS slave, Secure web, LDAP
• lists. Linux Dell Optiplex GX280. Mailman mailing lists.
• mx. Linux Sun Fire X2100 (dual-core Opteron with 2GB of RAM). Mail MX. Accepts email from internet.
• sulu. Linux Sun Fire X2100 (dual-core Opteron with 2GB of RAM). Mail storage running IMAPS/SMTPS
• capstone-srv. Linux Dell Optiplex GX280. Jumpstart setup for Capstone
• coral. Network Appliance FAS270. 2 TB storage. Central storage for home directories and research.

Windows 2003 Infrastructure Servers

• tsserv. Sun Fire X4100 (2 x dual-core Opteron with 8 GB of RAM). Terminal Server

Engineering Building CSE Network

• Foundry FastIron SuperX. 132 copper GigE ports with Fiber uplink from EGR
• Instructional labs have either Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch or HP Procurve copper GigE switch

Instructional Workstations

• 20 Dell Optiplex 280 in EB 3340 running Debian Linux (Bob lab)
• 20 Sun Ultra 20 in EB 3353 running Windows XP (Simpsons lab)
• 19 Sun Ultra 20 in EB 3353 running Debian Linux (Simpsons lab)
• 25 Dell Optiplex 270 in EB 3320 running Windows XP (River lab)
• 20 Dell Optiplex 270 in EB 3203 running Windows XP (Bone lab)

Instructional I/O Equipment

• HP LaserJet 8100 duplex printers in EB 3203, 3320, 3340, 3352
• HP Color LaserJet 4600 in EB 3203
• HP ScanJet 6200C color scanner in EB 3320

Capstone Equipment

• 15 Dell Optiplex GX270
• 15 Dell PowerEdge 850
• HP Procurve copper GigE switch
• Avocent netKVM
• Capstone students install OS of their choice

Other Facilities

Miscellaneous other systems operated by the CSE Department.

Faculty and Staff Facilities

• Each faculty and staff member has at least one personal workstation or PC
• HP 8100TN duplex printer
• HP Color LaserJet 4600
• Xerox Document Center
• HP ScanJet 6200C color scanner

Research Facilities

The CSE department provides network connections to research labs and houses some research servers in its machine room.

HSNP - High Speed Network and Performance Group, EB 3315

• Sun UltraSPARC 170E file server
• 10 GB filespace
• 12 Sun UltraSPARC 170E workstations
• HP ATM generator/analyzer
• 2 dual-Pentium Pro 180 PCs
• Cisco FastHub 100 TX Fast Ethernet Hub
• Tahoe-230 optical drive
• ATM Network
• 2 Fore ASX-200WG ATM switches
• 1 Fore ASX-200BX ATM switch
• 2 Cisco ATM 1010 swithches
• 12 SBA-200E ATM Interface cards

ISL - Intelligent Systems Laboratory

• Apple Workgroup Server 8550, 8 GB filespace
• Apple Workgroup Server 95, 1 GB filespace
• 1 Sun UltraSPARC 170, 2 SPARCstation 20MP, 1 SPARCstation 20, 1 SPARCstation 10, 1 SPARCstation 2
• 3 Apple PowerMac 8500/7600
• 15 Apple PowerMac 7500/7200/6100
• 4mm DDS-2 DAT drive
• Sony SVHS VCR
• Apple Color Scanner

METLAB - Media and Entertainment Technologies Laboratory

• Sun, HP, SGI workstations
• Miro video editing tools, sony digital cameras

PRIP - Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory, EB 3208

• Sun Ultra 170E file server, 256 MB memory, 30 GB filespace
• Sun SPARCstation 20MP compute server, 160 MB memory, 800 MB swap
• 8 mm, 4 mm, and 1/4-inch tape drives
• 14 Sun SPARCstation 2, SPARCstation 10, and SPARCstation 20 color workstations
• Macintosh IIfx
• Macintosh 8100 with Radius VideoVision Studio Pro Pak
• PCs running Windows/NT
• Image acquisition devices
• Sony VHS VCR
• Color flatbed scanner
• Video cameras and framegrabbers
• Laser range image scanner
• Fingerprint scanners
• Puma 560 robot arm interfaced to Sun 4/330
• Labmate-based mobile platform with onboard PC
• sonar and infra-red sensors
• pan/tilt head with color CCD cameras
• Labmate-based mobile platform with onboard PCs
• sonar and infra-red sensors
• robot arm
• cameras
• Splash 2 (Xilinx 4010 FPGA-based) attached processor

• A cluster of symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), interconnected by a high-speed switch
• Sun workstations
• Intel-based PCs

• Isolated port on the CSE switch; 100 Mb/s switch; for containment of experimental machines
• 4 Dell Optiplex 280