Computing Facilities
The Department of Computer Science hosts more than 40 research labs with access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; 2 open labs for graduate students; and a 128-seat open access lab for undergraduate students.
The labs consist of state-of-the-art, high-performance workstations and high-end PCs, all connected via gigabit Ethernet switches with a redundant fiber uplink to provide fast access to the campus network and the Internet. Nine classrooms and one large lecture hall with the latest computer and audio-visual equipment are available. Academic coursework, project, and compute systems are comprised of Linux x86_64, Windows Server, and Solaris 10 executing on a collection of physical servers and virtual server private clouds. The servers are connected via fiber channel and iSCSI to a thin-provisioned 14TB 3PAR mesh-active storage array. The University library has on hand a large collection of computer science journals and publications.
General Computing
EC Open Access Lab
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Location: ECSS 2.103 & 2.104
- Access: All students currently enrolled in any course in the school of engineering (128 seats).
- Machine Configurations:Dell OptiPlex 980 w/i7-870 Processor (8M Cache, 2.93 GHz), 4GB RAM, 22" (Dell P2210) flat-panel display, Windows 7, 64-bit, 2 HP Laserjet 9040 printers.
- EC Open Access Lab Hours:
Spring & fall through census day:
8 a.m. - 11 p.m. M-F
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sa/Su
Spring and fall through finals:
8 a.m. - 2 a.m. M-F
11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sa/Su
Summer hours:
8 a.m. - 11 p.m. M-F
11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sat/Sun
Graduate Windows Lab
Location: ECSS 3.101
Access: All CS graduate students (15 seats).
Machine Configurations: Dell Precision T1650. Intel XEON CPU E3 – 1225 v2, @3.20GHz. 8GB RAM, 24" flat-panel monitors, Windows 7 Enterprise.
HP Laserjet P4015n printer.
Hours: 24/7/356, access with approved Comet cards.
(Apply at CS department office at ECSS 4.908)
Location: ECSS 3.620
Access: All CS undergraduate/graduate students who take senior design project class (20 seats)
Machine Configurations: Dell Optiplex 760. Intel Core2 Duo, E8400@3.00GHz, 2GB RAM, 17” flat-panel monitors, Windows 7 Enterprise.
Hours: 24/7/356, access with Comet cards.
(Apply at CS department office at ECSS 4.908)
General Access Systems
Network Programming Systems
Access: All CS students enrolled in network programming and parallel processing courses (45 systems).
UTD network: SSH (netxx.utdallas.edu, ‘xx’ from 01 to 45).
Platform Configuration: Linux - CentOS 6.2 x86_64
cs1
Access: All CS students.
Internet access: SSH
UTD network: login with XDMCP or SSH (cs1.utdallas.edu)
Platform Configuration: Linux - CentOS 6.2 x86_64, Dell PowerEdge R710
w/2 six-core 2.53GHz Intel Xeon, 32GB RAM
cs2
Access: All CS students.
Internet access: SSH
UTD network: login with XDMCP or SSH (cs2.utdallas.edu)
Platform Configuration: Linux - CentOS 6.2 x86_64, Dell PowerEdge 2950 w/2
quad-core 2.0GHz Intel Xeon, 24GB RAM
cs3
Access: All CS students.
UTD network: login with XDMCP or SSH (cs3.utdallas.edu)
Platform Configuration: Solaris 10, Sun Fire V440 w/4x1GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi, 8GB RAM
cs4
Access: All CS students.
UTD network: login with XDMCP or SSH (cs4.utdallas.edu)
Platform Configuration: Solaris 10, Sun Fire V240 w/2x1GHz UltraSPARC-IIIi, 6GB RAM
Mathematica 7 For Linux
Access: All CS students
Internet access: SSH
UTD network: login with XDMCP or SSH (cs1.utdallas.edu, cs2.utdallas.edu)
Mathematica Help: Xmanager
Oracle 11
Access: All CS students
UTD network: access with SSH or standard Oracle clients
(csoracle.utdallas.edu), Instance Name=student
Oracle Help
Virtual Server Cloud (view image)
General purpose server cloud
VMware vSphere 4 on not less than 4 multi-core, dual processor x64/32GB RAM servers.
Network Security courses server cloud
VMware vSphere 4 executing on 4 processors of 6-core Opterons, 128GB RAM, and four 4Gb redundant fiber channel SAN connections.
