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.
  • CSE2 129 Quiet Computing Zone Closed 2:00am - 6:00am Monday morning.
  • Animation Lab Closed 2:00am - 6:00am Saturday morning.
  • CSE003 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.

Quiet Computing Zone in Gates Center (CSE2 129) is subject to the following additional policies: See Quiet Compute Zone policy.

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.

Students who are enrolled in classes for Fall quarter can request access and use the equipment and spaces over summer.

If you are interested in using GPUs for research, there are resources available to undergraduates.

Hardware and Software

General-Purpose Labs

Allen Center 002 (The Purple Suite)

  • 8 Dell Precision 5720 27" 4K UHD All-In-One workstations
    (Intel I7-6700 3.4Ghz, AMD Radeon Pro WX4150 4GB, 16GB Flash, 1TB HDD, 2018 vintage)
  • 6 Lenovo M93Z AIO workstations
    (16GB RAM, i7-4770S CPU, Intel HD Graphics 4600, DVD+-/R, 256 GB SSD, 2016 vintage, STF Funded)
  • 2 Dell Precision T5810 workstations
    (16GB RAM, i5-4590 CPU, AMD FirePro W2100, DVD-ROM, 256 GB SSD, 2016 vintage)
  • 2 ASUS-ROG G10CE GPU workstations (hostnames: prost, senna)
  • 5 Dell U2717D 27" Standalone Monitors (2560x1440, 2016 vintage, STF Funded)

OS Mix: 11 Linux (RockyLinux 9), 5 Windows 10.

Room 002 also has five desks available for laptop use.

Allen Center 006 (The Teal Suite)

  • 10 Dell Precision 5720 27" 4K UHD All-In-One workstations
    (Intel I7-6700 3.4Ghz, AMD Radeon Pro WX4150 4GB, 16GB Flash, 1TB HDD, 2018 vintage)
  • 4 Lenovo M93Z AIO workstations
    (16GB RAM, i7-4770S CPU, Intel HD Graphics 4600, DVD+-/R, 2014 vintage, STF Funded)

OS Mix: 10 Linux (RockyLinux 8), 4 Windows 10

Allen Center 003 (Spaceship!)

  • 30 Lenovo M93Z AIO workstations
    (16GB RAM, i7-4770S CPU, Intel HD Graphics 4600, DVD+-/R, 256 GB SSD, 2014 vintage)
  • 10 Dell U2717D 27" Standalone Monitors (2560x1440, 2016 vintage, STF Funded)
  • 1 Dell P2412H 24" Standalone Monitor (1920x1080, 2016 vintage, STF Funded)
  • 1 Dell 2007FP 20.1" Standalone Monitor(1600x1200)

OS Mix: 9 Linux (RockyLinux 8), 21 Windows 10

Room 003 also has eleven desks available for laptop use.

Gates Center 110

  • 21 Dell Precision 5720 AIO Workstations
    (i7-7700, 16GB RAM, 256SSD, AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 w/8GB GDDR5, 2018 STF Funded)
  • 9 Dell U2718Q 27" 4K Standalone Monitors (3840x2160, 2018 STF Funded)

OS Mix: 11 Linux (RockyLinux 8), 10 Windows 10

Gates Center 124

  • 16 Dell Precision 5720 AIO Workstations
    (i7-7700, 16GB RAM, 256SSD, AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 w/8GB GDDR5, 2018 STF Funded)
  • 6 Dell U2718Q 27" 4K Standalone Monitors (3840x2160, 2018 STF Funded)

OS Mix: 8 Linux (RockyLinux 8), 8 Windows 10

Gates Center 129 (Quiet Computing Zone)

  • 13 Dell Precision 5720 AIO Workstations
    (i7-7700, 16GB RAM, 256SSD, AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 w/8GB GDDR5, 2018 STF Funded)
  • 4 Dell U2718Q 27" 4K Standalone Monitors (3840x2160, 2018 STF Funded)

OS Mix: 8 Linux (RockyLinux 8), 5 Windows 10

Software Packages Installed on Lab Machines

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

Special-Purpose Labs

Animation Lab (Gates Center 141 and 143)

  • 6 IBUYPOWER workstations
    (32GB RAM, single 3.6GHz CPU,NVIDIA GeForce 4070 video, 2TB SSD, 2024 vintage)
  • 7 Dell Precision T3620 workstations
    (16GB RAM, dual 3.6GHz CPU, NVIDIA Quadro 600 video, 500 GB HDD, 2017 vintage)
  • 10 "local build" workstations
    (32GB RAM, single 3.7GHz CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 video, 500 GB SSD, 2018 vintage)
  • 5 Dell Precision 5820 workstations
    (32GB RAM, dual 3.5GHz CPU, NVIDIA Quadro P600 video, 256GB SSD, 2019 vintage)

Hardware Capstone Lab (Allen Center 003E)

  • 6 Dell-Precision T1700
    (16GB RAM, i7-4770 Quad-Core 3.4GHz CPU, AMD FirePro W5000, 500 GB HDD, 2015 vintage)
  • 5 Dell-Precision T3620
    (16GB RAM, i5-6600 Quad-Core 3.3GHz, NVIDIA Quadro K1200, 500 GB HDD, 2016 vintage)
  • 7 Dell-Precision T5810
    (16GB RAM, Intel Xeon E5-1607 Quad-Core 3.1GHz, NVIDIA K620, 500 GB HDD, 2016 vintage)

Hardware may vary depending on course needs

Capstone Lab (Gates 128)

  • Capacity: Approximately 15 modular desks (each desk can accomodate 1 desktop workstation - 1 monitor, 1 keyboard/mouse setup, 1 PC)

Hardware may vary depending on course needs

Capstone Lab (Gates 130)

  • Capacity: Approximately 20 modular desks (each desk can accomodate 1 desktop worksstation - 1 monitor, 1 keyboard/mouse setup, 1 PC)

Hardware may vary depending on course needs

Linux Servers

The Instructional Linux Cluster is known as "Attu". The cluster is comprised of seven systems. The first cohort is four Dell PowerEdge R430s, each with two Intel Xeon E5-2670v3 CPUs (2.3GHz,30M Cache,9.60GT/s QPI,12C/24T) for a total of 48 cores and 128GB of RAM per box. The 2nd more modern cohort is comprised of three three Supermicro systems, each with two Intel Xeon Gold 6132 (2.6GHz, 2666 MT/s, 14C/28T) for a total of 56 cores and 192GB per box. You can simply ssh to attu.cs.washington.edu and be connected (at random) to one of the seven servers. Alternatively you can directly connect to attu[1-7].cs.washington.edu. You can glimpse the relative load across the cluster here: https://nms.cs.washington.edu/stats/index.php?group=instr If you need to have long running jobs (e.g., hours/days of CPU time), please inform support@cs of your requirements/intentions. Otherwise it is possible that your jobs may be classified as "runaways" and will be killed (at worst) and stopped (at best) until it is made clear that they are actually performing useful work.

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.)

GPU Resources

Two Rocky Linux 9 desktops - prost and senna - in CSE 002 have NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPUs. They are available for anyone in the Allen School with a CSE account to use.