http://www.cs.colorado.edu/95-96/computing.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Dept of Computer Science - Computing Facilities
Computer Science Department
University of Colorado at Boulder
Academic Year 95/96
Computing Facilities
The Department of Computer Science has its own research and instructional
computing facilities for both graduate and undergraduate students.
Additional instructional computers are available at the University's
Computing Center. All of this equipment is interconnected by
10Mbit/sec Ethernets connected to the Internet with multiple T1 lines.
The Department is also part of an experimental high speed network
that connects workstations and parallel computers with OC3 (155mb/sec)
fiber optic circuits and ATM switches.
More information on both graduate and undergraduate facilities,
documentation, and local customs is detailed below:
Graduate Student's Computing Facilities
All graduate students have access to workstations in the open
grad lab, ECCR 1-21. PhD students also have access to equipment in
the research laboratories of faculty in their area of interest.
The number of workstations in research labs varies but is about
one per PhD student; there are fewer workstations for masters students.
A partial list of facilities in the various laboratories follows:
- SUN and Solbourne workstations
- DEC MIPS and Alpha workstations
- Symbolics and Mac workstations (AI labs)
- HP PA-RISC workstations
- NCD X-Terminals
- Intel Hypercubes (32 and 64 processor)
- KSR Parallel Supercomputer (64 processor)
- Intel Paragon Supercomputer (208 processor)
- Thinking Machines CM5 Supercomputer (32 processor)
The
CSOPS
home page contains a wealth of information about the local
computing environment for graduate students.
Undergraduate Student's Computing Facilities
Undergrad computer science majors and students taking upper level
computer science classes have access to UNIX workstations
in the Department's undergrad lab. The lab contains a total of
about 80 workstations of various kinds, some are color, some are
new, all support the X-Windows system, and are on the Internet.
An adjacent lab, the High Performance Scientific Computing Lab (HPSC), is
also for undergraduates taking certain courses.
The HPSC lab will become the Simulation Lab in the new ITL (Integrated
Teaching and Learning) Laboratory being built this next year.
A partial list of facilities in CS undergrad laboratories follows:
- HP workstations (3 servers, 5 with color graphics, 20 old ones)
- DEC MIPS workstations (5 with color graphics, 7 monochrome)
- IBM RS-6000 workstations (1 server, 4 clients)
- HP X-Terminals (4 color, 16 monochrome)
- NCD X-Terminals (10 color, 10 monochrome)
- IBM X-Terminals (5 monochrome)
- Minix PC's (10 386's)
- Miscellaneous other workstations
- Other essentials
- A couch
- A refrigerator
- Soda in the fridge (25 cents a can)
- A study table
- A lab weenie (a student helper who should know the answers
to routine questions about the lab, on duty 3:30-5:30 weekdays)
UgradOps, the group of students who run the undergraduate lab,
has compiled a wealth of information about the lab.
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