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General ResourcesThe Department maintains a wide variety of state-of-the-art computing facilities for research and instructional use. The Computer Science Laboratory coordinates the acquisition, maintenance, and operation of the computing equipment and network services. General-purpose research computing is provided by over 600 Windows and Unix-based workstations and servers, located in laboratories, machine rooms and offices. These include several platforms: nearly 500 Intel Pentium systems, and several dozen SPARCs, Alphas and SGIs.
Research ResourcesResearch in computer systems (including architecture, networking, and distributed systems) involves a wide and constantly updated variety of hardware, software, and networks. Current hardware includes high-performance Intel uniprocessor and SMP platforms, a 65-processor Intel cluster, a networking testbed cluster, and several Alpha, Sun, SGI and PC workstations. Our facilities include Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and Alpha support, and our clusters enjoy gigabit switched Ethernet connectivity and an Abilene network feed. In addition, the Systems lab provides a common workspace for systems, networking, and architecture students, and features Windows workstations, a video projector, and floor-to-ceiling whiteboards. Research in VLSI, digital hardware, and embedded systems is supported by a set of PC and SPARC workstations and multiprocessor compute servers. A large collection of both commercial and university computer-aided design tools form the core of the design environment providing capabilities for the design of CMOS VLSI chips, various forms of programmable logic, microprocessor-based systems, and printed-circuit boards. A variety of specialized equipment for the prototyping, debugging, and testing of microelectronic systems is also available and is housed within the Laboratory for Integrated Systems (LIS). These resources are utilized by research projects involved in the design of programmable logic architectures, devices to support ubiquitous and invisible computing, embedded systems, neurally-inspired computing and learning devices, and by graduate and undergraduate courses including VLSI and embedded system design. Research in graphics, image processing, and user interfaces, centered in the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL), utilizes a set of high-end graphics workstations,
Research in robotics is carried out in the Robotics Laboratory, which is equipped with several mobile robots, ranging from an RWI B21 robot to ActivMedia Pioneer robots to a team of four Sony AIBO dogs. All robots utilize wireless networking to communicate with each other and to the lab PCs running Linux. Many other research groups utilize specialized equipment. Additional information can be found in the web pages for individual research projects, at http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/. Instructional Resources
The department also operates four special-purpose laboratories containing approximately 60 Intel Pentium PCs running Windows 2000, each backed by dedicated file servers. To support digital system design courses, the Integrated Digital Design Laboratory contains 12 Pentium workstations for design entry and simulation along with Tektronix logic analyzers, digital oscilloscopes and other test equipment.
Remote AccessRemote access to the Department's computing facilities is available through private Internet service providers, through the University's dialup facilities, as well as from University computing labs and residence halls.
Last Updated: August 2, 2001 |
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