Science Building III Computer Facilities

Network Infrastructure
The computer science department on the third floor of Science III is connected to the campus network over redundant gigabit fiber optic connections. All internal machines (faculty workstations, and lab computers) are connected to 100BaseT switches in the computer science department's machine room. All critical servers are connected via a gigabit switch and protected by UPSs and housed in a secure machine room.

Server Room: Room 335
All machines and equipment for the department are housed in the Server Room. The primary server for the department is a SUN FIRE V880 Server (helios) with dual 750MHz processors and 4 GB RAM. Helios has ~250GB storage. Helios also serves as the department's email and http server, as well as one of our time servers.
The backup server for the department (pegasus) is an AlphaServer 4100 with two 466MHz processors, 2 GB of RAM and ~65 GB of disk space. Pegasus is running Digital Unix v4.OD. A wide range of compilers (C, C++, Fortran, Ada, Java, etc.) and the full suite of Unix programming development tools (debuggers, make, etc.) are available on both servers. Students taking 200-level programming courses programming courses are instructed in the Unix environment on helios. Courses that utilize the Java development environment are taught on sumatra, a SUN SPARC64 server running Solaris 7.
The department purchased a Dell 6950 server (sleipner) that will be available for use in Winter 2009. Slepnir has 4 dual core 3GHz Opteron processors, 64GB RAM and approximately 3 TB of storage. Sleipnir already as the department's primary name server.

Network Lab: Room 314
This lab is managed by Dr. Melissa Danforth and used for faculty research projects and advanced networking courses.

State Farm Advanced Computing Lab: Room 315
The Sun workstations in this lab were purchased through a donation by State Farm. These advanced workstations have two 3GHz dual core Opteron processors, 8GB RAM, and 320GB storage. The lab is optimized for graphics, with 30" flat panel monitors capable of a resolution of 2560x1600.

Robotics Lab: Room 312
The robotics lab is managed by Dr. Wei Li. Most recently, Dr. Li held a Summer Robotics Workshop for local high school students in this lab.

Digital Electronics Lab: Room 313
The Digital Electronics Lab has DELL 390's and electronic bread boards. This lab is used to teach digital circuitry courses.

Unix Workstation Lab: Room 311
The lab in room 311 houses 35 Dell T5400 PCs running Linux. A Windows XP VMWare image is accessible via VMPlayer and is loaded with computer science specific software (MatLab, LabView, Simulink, OpenGL, and MSDN Software Engineering packages, SQL Server). All machines are optimized for graphics work, with 22" flat panel monitors. Room 311 is equipped with an overhead projector and projection screen for data, video, DVD, and VHS.

Walk-In Lab: Room 324
Room 318 houses DELL 3400s. The software installed in the Unix Workstation Lab is also installed in this lab. Wireless access to the campus network from this lab is in the planning stages. Room 318 is open for walk-in computer science students and also serves as the tutoring area. The department offers free tutoring for students in all 200-level courses. Exact hours vary from quarter to quarter, but generally 35 hours/week are scheduled including evenings and weekends. For the current schedule see the posted schedule on the department web page.

Computer Science Department Library: Room 341
The department library holds recent and current copies of computer science texts, magazines and journals. Titles include "Communications of the ACM" and "Scientific American".

PC Instruction Lab: Room 240
Room 240 is used for instruction and shared by computer science and mathematics. There are 35 Dell T3400s running native Linux and a VMWare image of Windows XP in this lab. All machines have 22" widescreen monitors. Room 240 is equipped with an overhead projector and projection screen for data, video and DVD.