The Computer Science Department facilities have evolved from a single mainframe computing environment to a heterogeneous system of distributed workstations. The department has workstations running Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000, and XP all connected by a segmented Gigabit ethernet backbone.

The J Mack Adams undergraduate lab is based on PC hardware running the Linux operating system. At present, the lab consists of 12 Dell P4s (3.06GHz, 533MHz FSB), 35 - HP P4s (3.00GHz, 800MHz FSB), and one Mitsuba P4 (2.0GHz). Two laser printers for classwork purposes are also available.

A wireless computer classroom has been built out of part of the J Mack Adams lab, and has 24 wireless HP notebooks running Suse Linux. The classroom also has three fixed LCD projectors which project onto a writeable surface and are controlled from an instructor's console.

The graduate student lab is based on high-end machines running the Solaris operating system. The lab has 2 SunBlade 1000 systems, 12 Sun Java Workstation W1100z with Opteron 150's running 64bit SuSE
Linux, 3-4 Sunrays and laser printing facilities. In addition, many graduate students share computing resources with their advising faculty members in special-purpose laboratories. In addition, every graduate student with an office has one SunRay or Linux host for access to the shared computing facilities of the department.

The research facilities of the department consist of a great variety of machines located in faculty offices graduate and special purpose labs. These include many Sun workstations, PC-based platforms (running a variety of operating systems, including Linux, Windows 2000, and XP), as well as several special-purpose parallel computing platforms including a Sun Enterprise Server 4500, multi-processor Sun workstations, a small cluster consisting of four 4-cpu Pentium III based multiprocessors and a large cluster consiting of 32 dual processor nodes.

The Computer Operations Group (COG) operates the department's computing facilities. A large body of software is installed and maintained by this group, and direct support is provided for research projects through identification, acquisition, installation and consulting for a wide variety of software and hardware products. The COG is responsible for the Unix system administration of approximately 1000 undergraduate, graduate and faculty users. Account creation, monitoring and deletion are ongoing activities. The department's over 1.5 terabytes of on-line storage is also managed by this group.

The COG, Graduate Student Organization, and Student Chapter of ACM directly support educational computing in the department by providing seminars on a variety of topics. Seminars have been presented on Unix/Linux fundamentals, the use of the Unix make facility, HTML programming, debugging C programs, controls of files in a large programming environment and concepts in system programming. The staff also provides consulting resources for the departments students. Tours and demonstrations are frequently given to various groups, including prospective and incoming students.