General Development Labs

The general development labs consist of Dell Precision Workstations, configured as follows:

• Dougan 110
  • 30 Dell 360 Workstations (single CPU)
    1. Pentium IV 2.80GHz, 1MB / 800MHz FSB
    2. 1GB (2x512MB or 4x256MB) DDR400 ECC RAM
    3. 40GB IDE, ATA-100 7200rpm hard drive
    4. nVidia, Quadro NVS 280, 64MB, dual monitor VGA capable
    5. Gb NIC
    6. 48X/32X/48X CD-RW IDE drive
    7. 2 front, 4 rear USB 2.0 ports
    8. no speaker

• Science Building 106
  • 39 Dell 370 Workstations (single CPU)
    1. Pentium 3Ghz Intel EM64T, 2M L2 Cache 800 FSB
    2. 2x512MB 533Mhz DDR2 ECC
    3. 40GB SATA, 7200 RPM hard drive
    4. nVidia, Quadro NVS 280, PCI-E, 64MB, dual monitor capable (VGA/DVI)
    5. Gb NIC
    6. 16X DVD+/-RW IDE drive
    7. 2 front, 4 rear USB 2.0 ports

• Science Building 108
  • 14 Dell 360 Workstations (single CPU)

    (same specs as those in DOU110)

  • 8 Dell 370 Workstations (single CPU)

    (same specs as those in SCI106)

Student-Administered Labs

Student-administered computers are those which are temporarily (for one quarter) placed under the control of students, with the consent and supervision of their instructor or faculty advisor. There is pre-installed software on removable hard disk drives, and those drive trays can slide into bays. Depending on the demands of the course, the student may:

• install another operating system
• configure one of the pre-installed ones
• install and configure services and/or applications
• modify the hardware (only with explicit permission from faculty, as the computers themselves are re-used by other students)

Here is a list of the hardware components:

• Science Building 113
  • 16 Computers
    1. AMD Opteron 246 CPU, 32/64-bit (one)
    2. Tyan Thunder K8WE Mainboard
       • Motherboard specs
       • dual-processor capable
       • capable of up to 16GB RAM with both processors installed
       • two 1Gb NICs (with second processor)
       • Dual PCI Express x16 slots
       • DVD ROM drive
       • removable PATA hard disk drive bay (only one IDE connector)
       • USB 2.0
       • Firewire 400
       • SATA II connectors inside
       • one serial port (no parallel port)

    3. 2x512MB PC3200 DDR ECC Registered RAM
    4. generic PCI-based VGA video card
    5. Silverstone Temjin EATX case
    6. AMS Mercury 460W power supply
    7. USB boot and PXE support in BIOS
    8. generic floppy diskette drive

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