Research and Laboratory Facilities:
Faculty and students in the Department of Systems and Computer Science enjoy large open-plan spaces designed to support collaborative research and facilitate social and intellectual interaction. The Department's computing infrastructure is separate from the rest of the college and supports all administrative, research, and educational needs. In particular, the Department maintains seven state-of-the-art computing labs with high-performance computing clusters, simulation platforms, telecommunications, and graphics/multimedia workstations. The seven major departmental teaching and research facilities consist of the:
The Department has good relations with most major computer technology companies. It has recent grants from Intel, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Sun, and Lucent, among others.
Other Facilities:
Faculty and students also have access to laboratories with the latest cyberinfrastructure technology. These laboratories consist of an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and
interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid. The technology includes:
Student from across the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Science also have access to the Computer Learning and Design Center (CLDC). Inside of CLDC, the students learn the backbone of hardware and software, such as the operation and concentrators and routers [hardware devices for networking], and get first-hand experience in managing software tools. CLDC's daily operations are managed by students, whose network education compliments their formal engineering studies. Student operators are responsible for the overall network setup, PC Windows, MAC "choosers," as well as every link, application, modem, operating system, workstation, and printer along the way.
In addition, students have access to the university computing facility known as the iLab.Students enjoy access to an abundance of heterogeneous equipment (i.e. Macs, PC, Sun Unix, and Linux).
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