Undergraduate Laboratories

Unless otherwise indicated, these labs are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week except during scheduled labs and maintenance. Please check the posted schedules, which are located on the lab doors or at Classes & Labs > Room Schedules for Labs on the department website.

These labs are intended to support CS classes. Be prepared to show your University photo ID.


Available Labs: CL105, CL115, CL135, CL135.4, CL136

CL105

  • 12 Dell Dimension XPS + 1 Instructor Machine
    System:
    • AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
    • 3GB DDR3 SDRAM
    • 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4800
    • WD Caviar Blue hard drive - 500 GB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM
    • Sony Optiarc DVD±RW AD-7200S
    • Firewire, headphone jack, and 2 USB 2.0 ports accessible on front of machine
    • Realtek HD Audio
    • 24" 1920x1080 Dell Wide screen monitor
    Software
    • Windows 7 + Novell account environment
    • General Software Development: Netbeans IDE 7, Visual Studio 2010, Matlab R2011a with Image Processing Toolbox
    • Media Software Development: DirectX SDK (June 2010), Java Media Framework 2.1.1e API, pd-extended 0.42.5, XNA Game Studio 4, SDL 1.2.13, GLEW, GLUT, Silverlight 3 SDK
    • Low Level Development: PC SPIM 7.2.1, qtSPIM, MPLab v8.76, LogicWorks 5, Xilinx 10.1
    • Media Production: Nvu 1.0, GIMP 2.6.11, Audacity, Maya 2011
    • Office: Microsoft Office 2007
    • Other: VLC, Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8, MapWindow GIS, 7zip, Irfanview, PowerDVD DX, Alice 2.2, URConfigured puTTy 0.6.0, URConfigured WinSCP 4.1.9
  • Used for smaller labs requiring Windows PCs: CS 201, CS 301, CS 210, CS 408, CS 409
  • Overhead Projector with VGA cable for secondary (laptop) input
  • Lab access restricted. Access card and CS account required.

 

CL115
  • 12 Sunray 2 virtual display clients + 1 Instructor Machine
    System:
    • Sunray 2 virtual clients (connected to one of two servers)
    • 22" 1680x1050 Sun Widescreen LCD Panel.
    Software:
    • SunOS 5.9, Solaris 9 + CS UNIX account environment
    • CDE Desktop (Gnome 2 Desktop available, but not recommended)
    • Sun and Gnu C/C++ development tools
    • Rational Rose 2003 CASE tools
    Primary Use: Web Development (CS 215) and Software Engineering (CS 372).

  • 15 Dell Optiplex 780 PCs + 1 Instructor Machine
    System:
    • 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo e7500
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 250 GB hard drive
    • Dual Head 21.5" 1920x1080 Acer G215H LCD Panels
    • 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3450 video card
    Software:
    • Scientific Linux 5.6 + CS UNIX account environment
    • Gnu C++ tools, Emacs 21, Gnome 2 Desktop, broad selection of open source software
    Primary use: Intermediate C++ Programming (CS 115) and Operating Systems (CS 330, CS 430).
  • Overhead Projector with switch for flipping between 2 instructor machines and laptop input.
  • Wireless Public Address System
  • Lab access restricted. CS account required.

 

CL135 - Undergraduate Digital Media Lab (UDML)
  • 16 White iMacs + 1 Instructor Machine
    System:
    • 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
    • 2GB Ram
    • 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT video card
    • 24" 1900x1200 integrated LCD monitor
    • 233GB SATA HD
    • DVD-R optical drive
    • Bluetooth
    • Powered USB 2.0 behind monitor, 2 unpowered USB 1.1 on keyboard
    • Firewire behind monitor
    • Intel HD Audio with internal speakers
    Software:
    • Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard + CS Mac account environment (Special login information required)
    • Audio tools: Audacity 1.2.5, GarageBand 3.0, Pd-extended 0.40.3
    • Graphics tools: Blender 2.46, OpenGL Shader Builder 2.0, Gimp 2.6.3, Inkscape 0.46
    • Multimedia tools: iDVD, iMovie HD, iPhoto
    • Adobe CS4 Production Premium: Photoshop, Illustrator, Encore, Premier, Flash, Soundbooth, After Effects
    • Office tools: NeoOffice 3.0.1
    • Software development: Alice 2.0, NetBeans 6.7.1, Xcode 3.2
    • Web & web development: AU lab 2.0, Nvu 1.0, iWeb, Safari 5.1, Firefox 6.0
    • Hacker/Maker tools: Arduino 0022, Fritzing
  • 2 aluminium iMacs
    These machines are reserved for use with the devices listed below.
    • 2 Epson Expression 1640XL Color Image Scanners
    • 1 DV and S-VHS video capture deck
    • 1 Roland Midi Controller
  • Overhead Projector with VGA cable for secondary (laptop) input
  • Wireless Public Address System
  • Used for multimedia and film courses (FILM 486AJ, FILM 208, CS 325/FILM 385AB), user interfaces (CS 305) computer audio (CS 327) and computer graphics (CS 315, CS 425).
  • Lab access restricted. Key code required.

 

CL135.4
  • 23 Dell Optiplex 780 PCs
    System:
    • 19" 1280x1024 Dell 1901FP LCD Panel
    • 3.33GHz Core 2 Duo 8600
    • 3.25GB RAM
    • 160GB SATA HD
    • DVD+- R/W optical drive
    • 2 accessible USB 2.0 jacks
    • 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE video card
    • SoundMax integrated high definition audio with front speaker and mic jacks
    Software:
    • Windows 7 + Novell account environment
    • Visual Studio 2010
    • WinSCP
    • puTTy
    • Rational Rose 8.3
    • NetBeans 7
    • Firefox 8
    • Internet Explorer 9
  • Used exclusively for CS110 labs.

 

CL136

  • 26 Dell Optiplex 740 PCs + 1 Instructor System
    System:
    • 17" Wide screen LCD monitor
    • 2.3GHz AMD Athlon 64x2/4400+ Dual Core CPU
    • 2GB RAM
    • 160GB SATA HD
    • DVD+-R/W optical drive
    • 2 accessible USB 2.0 jacks
    • Radeon HD2400 Pro video card
    Software:
    • Windows 7 + Novell account environment
    • Office: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Works 9
    • Web:Firefox 8, Giffy, Internet Explorer 9, IrfanView, MapEdit, WinSCP, UnFreez, puTTy
    • Chemistry: Gaussian 03
  • Wireless Public Address System
  • Primarily used for CS100 and CS104

 

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