CSE Instructional Facilities

Welcome!
To the CSE Student & Instructional Labs
in the Allen Center

Lab facilities are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to all CSE students and others enrolled in CSE majors and graduate courses, subject to access restrictions as noted. General access labs and the Unix Cycle Servers are available for any use that furthers student educational goals. Special purpose labs and the Web, Database and Project Servers are limited to use by students enrolled in specific courses.

A large variety of software is available for both Windows and Unix systems. The software installed in these labs may vary slightly, based on the needs of the courses being taught in any given quarter. A list of all courses for the current quarter, and what laboratory resources they are using is here.

All labs are open and available most of the time; however, there are some exceptions:

Labs will be closed for weekly maintenance according to the following schedule (see Notes below for more details):
    CSE 002   Closed 2-6am Saturday morning
    CSE 006   Closed 2-6am Sunday morning
    CSE 022   Closed 2-6am Monday morning
Faculty or staff may on occasion reserve a lab for instructional purposes or special events, for example demonstration of final projects or a visit by middle-schoolers. Use the CSE reservation system to view and make such reservations.

Instructors:
Click Here!

Also see the list of Computing Resources for CSE Undergrads,
and please take a few minutes to review the Guidelines for Lab Usage.

General Access Workstation Labs

Workstation Lab #1

CSE 002

24	Windows PCs,
15	Linux PCs,
1	Multi-Media PC,
Conference Table to seat 8

In the General Access Labs...

30 PCs are 3.0gHz Dual Core, donated by Intel.
35 PCs are 3.4gHz Dual Core, funded by UW Student Technology Fee.
24 PCs are 2.7gHz Pentium 4, funded by UW Student Technology Fee.

Workstation Lab #2

CSE 006

15	Windows PCs,
10	Linux PCs,
1	Multi-Media PC,
Conference Table to seat 8

Workstation Lab #3

CSE 022

15	Windows PCs,
10	Linux PCs,
1	Multi-Media PC,
Conference Table to seat 8

Special Access Labs

(See end notes for access restrictions.)

Hardware Lab

(Baxter Computer Engineering Lab)

CSE 003

25	PCs - Pentium 4 (2.4gHz, 1mb) (on desks)
14	PCs - Pentium 4 (2.4gHz, 2mb) (on benches)

Embedded Systems
Project Lab

CSE 003E

13	PCs - Pentium 4 (2.4gHz, 2mb) (on benches)

Tablet Computing Lab

CSE 003D

11	Compaq PCs (2.4gHz, 512mb)
11	Compaq Tablet PCs

Special Projects Lab

Sieg 324

11	PCs - Pentium 4 (3.2GHz, 512mb)
18	PCs - Pentium III (800MHz, 256mb)

Graphics Lab

Sieg 329

7	PCs - Pentium 4 (3.0gHz, 1gb)
10	PCs - Pentium 4 (1.5GHz, 1gb)

Digital Animation Lab

Sieg 325

4	PCs - Pentium 4 (3.3gHz, 2gb)
10	PCs - Pentium 4 (3.0gHz, 2gb)
5	PCs - Dual Pentium 4 (2.6gHz, 2gb)
1	PC - Pentium III (1.5gHz, 1gb)
2	PCs - Dual Pentium III (1.0gHz, 2gb)
2	PowerMacs (G4 & G5)
	RenderFarm (20 nodes) - Dual Pentium 4 Xeon (3.4gHz, 2gb)

Other Resources

Unix Cycle Servers

Attu

A cluster of four servers - Dual Pentium 4 Xeon 2.8GHz, 4gb memory
(A single process CPU time limit policy applies to these machines.)

Web & DB Servers

Cubist
IISLQSRV

(Linux)
(Windows 2000)

Project Servers

IPROJSRV

Amlia,
Kiska,
Umnak

(Windows 2000 – Dual Pentium 4 Xeon 2.8GHz, 2gb memory)

(Linux – three Dual Pentium 4 Xeon 2.8GHz, 2gb memory)

These four servers – one Windows and three Unix – are assigned to specific courses on a quarterly basis, and usage policies are governed by instructors of those courses. In general, no more than one course will be assigned to a given project server. See the Course Computing list for current Project Server assignments.)

Google Cluster

Hadoop

A cluster of nodes running the Hadoop software framework - part of the IBM/Google Initiative to support Internet scale computing challenges. Use of this cluster requires permission of a CSE faculty member, and a special account.

Ugrad Computing Resources

A list of computing resources available to CSE undergraduates, including ways to get help and resolve problems related to the use of the laboratories.

These labs have been equipped largely through the generous support of

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Notes:

Unless otherwise posted there are no time limits imposed on use of the workstations for instructional (course) work. You may also lock a workstation, but only for brief periods (e.g. potty breaks).

If you need a workstation and find that all are locked or otherwise in use feel free to reboot one that has been locked for more than 15 minutes.

Access to special purpose labs is limited to students enrolled in graphics, certain capstone, and hardware design courses, and only for course work in those respective courses.

For a list of the computing facilities and software used by all CSE courses, click here.

Only one lab will be closed for maintenance at any one time, so 24/7 access is assured. The maintenance time allows us to keep all computers updated with the latest patches and to accommodate changes in instructional software during the quarter.

Last Updated: Sep, 2006


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Welcome! To the CSE Student & Instructional Labs in the Allen Center

Welcome!
To the CSE Student & Instructional Labs
in the Allen Center