CSE Instructional Labs

Overview

The department maintains a number of spaces, with desktop computers, for both general computing purposes as well as for course-specific purposes. There are also Linux and Windows servers available for special-purpose projects.

General purpose labs are available for any use that furthers student educational goals.
Special purpose labs are limited to use by students enrolled in specific courses.

These lab spaces are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to all CSE students and others enrolled in CSE major and graduate courses, subject to weekly maintenance, course restriction, or existing reservations.

CSE’s instructional lab facilities have been equipped largely through the generous support of UW Student Technology Fee and the Intel Corporation. More details here.

Faculty or staff may, on occasion, reserve a lab for instructional purposes or special events (final project demos, public-school visitors). Please use the CSE Room Reservation System to make or view room reservations.

Weekly Maintenance and Lab Closures

The instructional labs will be closed for maintenance on the following schedule, allowing us to keep the computers up to date with security and application patches, and to accomodate changes in instructional software needs during the quarter.

  • CSE 002 Closed 2:00am - 6:00am Saturday morning.
  • CSE 006 Closed 2:00am - 6:00am Sunday morning.
  • CSE 022 Closed 2:00am - 6:00am Monday morning.
  • Animation Lab Closed 2:00am - 6:00am Saturday morning.
  • Hardware Lab: Closed 2:00am - 6:00am Saturday morning.

Lab Etiquette and Notes

Unless otherwise posted, there is no time limit imposed on the use of instructional lab resources for course work. Locking the computer for brief periods of time is fine, but leaving it locked for a longer period of time is not - someone may reboot the computer and start using it if you're gone for too long.

Instructional lab users should familiarize themselves with our lab usage guidelines.

Access to special-purpose labs is limited to students enrolled in animation, hardware design, and capstone courses, and use of these labs is only for course work in those courses.

Only one general-purpose lab will be closed for maintenance at a time, to ensure 24/7 availability. The regular maintenance allows us to keep the installed software up to date, and to accomodate changes in instructional software needs during the school year.

Hardware and Software

General-Purpose Labs

Allen Center 002 (The Aquamarine Suite)

  • 22 Dell Optiplex 7010 desktops
    (8GB RAM, i7-3770 CPU, AMD Radeon HD 7470 video, DVD+-/RW)
  • 3 Dell Precision 490 desktops
    (4GB RAM, quad-core Intel X5355 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 video)
  • 4 Dell Vostro 460 desktops
    (8GB RAM, i5-2400 CPU, DVD+-/RW)

OS Mix: 16 Linux (Fedora 17), 13 Windows 7.

Allen Center 006 (The Orange Suite)

  • 22 Dell Optiplex 7010 desktops
    (8GB RAM, i7-3770 CPU, AMD Radeon HD 7470 video, DVD+-/RW)
  • 3 Dell Vostro 460 desktops
    (8GB RAM, i5-2400 CPU, DVD+-/RW)

OS Mix: 22 Linux (Fedora 17), 3 Windows 7

Allen Center 022 (The Green Suite)

  • 21 Dell Optiplex 7010 desktops
    (8GB RAM, i7-3770 CPU, AMD Radeon HD 7470 video, DVD+-/RW)
  • 16 Linux (Fedora 17), 13 Windows 7
  • 3 Dell Vostro 460 desktops
    (8GB RAM, i5-2400 CPU, DVD+-/RW)

OS Mix: 4 Linux (Fedora 17), 20 Windows 7

Software

General-purpose lab computers have the following software - Windows and Linux - installed on them.

Special-Purpose Labs

Animation Lab (Sieg 329)

  • 6 Dell Precision 390 desktops
    (8GB RAM, dual 2.0GHz CPU, NVIDIA Quadro 3450 video)
  • 8 Dell Precision T3400n desktops
    (12GB RAM, dual 2.8GHz CPU, NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 video)
  • 10 Dell Precision T3500 desktops
    (12GB or 24GB RAM, dual 2.8GHz CPU,NVIDIA Quadro 2000 video)

Hardware Lab (Allen Center 003)

  • 14 Dell Vostro 460 desktops
  • 10 Dell Optiplex GX620 desktops
  • 12 Dell Optiplex 745 desktops

Hardware Capstone Lab (Allen Center 003E)

  • hardware will vary depending on course needs

General Capstone Lab (Allen Center 003D)

  • hardware will vary depending on course needs

Servers

Linux Servers

A cluster of four servers - Dual Pentium 4 Xeon 2.8GHz, 10gb memory. (A single process CPU time limit policy applies to these machines.)

Windows Servers

The department has a set of sixteen virtual Windows servers available online. More information about the VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is available.

Web / Database Servers

Web and database projects can be built and run on cubist.

Project Servers

These four servers – iprojsrv (Windows), amlia, kiska, umnak (Linux) – 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.)

Last changed Tue, 2013-04-30 11:56