Resources for Instruction and Research
The major resources for graduate instruction and research in computer science are concentrated within the instructional facilities and research laboratories in the Computer Science Department. Additional instructional facilities are utilized through the Academic Computing Services of the College of Engineering. Selected research facilities are available through the research laboratories of interdisciplinary faculty in the group, as well as through network links to several supercomputer centers including the facilities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Gigabit Ethernet and high speed wireless networking provide host-to-host services connecting all of the systems available to students and faculty of the graduate group. Gateways give these systems access to the Internet and to virtually all available research computer networks.
Students have access to a wide variety of research and instructional resources, including numerous workstations and general purpose processors. These resources include:/p>
- over 200 Sun, HP, Dell, and other computers and servers which support student and faculty research
- over 80 computers running the latest Linux distributions in three labs supporting instructional activities
- access to a variety of parallel and supercomputer systems at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the San Diego Super Computer Center
- a local compute cluster of 40 node
- all connected using high speed gigabit Ethernet networking
All graduate students have direct access to a work-station for research and instruction.