COMPUTING FACILITIES

• Students within the Computer Science department will receive accounts automatically. Otherwise, see COG for getting an account
• The graduate student lab, SH 169 is based on Sun workstations running the Solaris operating system and Linux. The lab has several Sun workstations acting as shared-compute servers as well as several older-model workstations. In addition to these shared facilities, many graduate students share computing resources with their advising faculty members in special-purpose laboratories. In addition, every graduate student office has one or more X Terminals 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 and special purpose labs. These include over 30 Sun workstations, 5 PC-based platforms (running a variety of operating systems, including Linux, Windows 95 and Windows NT) 8 Macintosh workstations, as well as several special-purpose parallel computing platforms (four multi-processor Sun workstations and two Sequent Symmetry parallel processors).
• The main undergraduate teaching lab is based on PC hardware running the Linux operating system. At present, the lab consists of 40 hosts .
• The `Computer Center' is officially called the Computing Networking Organization.
• Computing Networking Organizationadministers the several general access labs. The main ones are listed below:

BUSINESS & ECON LAB Business Complex, 309 646-1519

COMPUTER CENTER RM 139, 140, 141 646-4433

ENGLISH LAB English Building room 102 646-5279

LIBRARY CLUSTER Jacobs Hall room 129 646-5730

MAC LAB Jacobs Hall room 128 646-4209

PC LAB Jacobs Hall room 205 646-4209

WESTSIDE CLUSTER Knox Hall (West side) 646-6100