Department Computing Facilities and Support

Facilities

The Department of Computer Science has approximately 1000 computer systems. These systems are maintained by the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF). The computers are connected to a state-of-the-art 10/100/1000 Mbs switched network. The CSCF also maintains a wireless network (IEEE 802.11b/g and 802.11a) that provides up to a 54Mbs connection to the department's switched ethernet network. The department is connected to the campus via a high speed link. The campus maintains two connections to the internet, each with a 250Mbs+ external connection. The department has been added to the Internet 2 with a 45Mbs link.

The computing environment is primarily made up of UNIX systems along with a large number of Macintosh systems and Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP systems. Multi-user resources include 12 SUN Enterprise Servers, 1 SunFire 6800 Midframe Server, 4 high-end multi-processor Linux Servers, and a multi-CPU DEC Alpha Server. Additionally there are approximately, 300 Linux Workstations and Workgroup Servers and 11 Sun UltraSparc Workstations. 3 large Clusters of Linux systems including one cluster with 64 nodes.

For personal computing there are over 175 Macintosh computers and 175 PCs running under various Microsoft Windows operating systems (95/98/NT/2000/XP).

Printing needs are accommodated by more than 80 laser printers, including several high-speed, high-density duplex print servers, seven full-color printers, as well as a full-color poster printer.

The Educational Laboratory (Edlab) is reserved for undergraduate and graduate course work. The Edlab has 38 RedHat Linux PCs supported by central servers. The EDLAB is located in rooms 223 and 225 in the Lederle Graduate Research Tower (LGRT) which can be found in the middle-top of campus on this map. In the fall of 2002 the department opened a new addition to the Education Laboratory in room 215 of the LGRT. The new lab has 20 PCs running Windows 2000, supported by a Windows 2000 ADS.

The Department also offers state-of-the-art facilities in each of its research labs --- see lab descriptions for details.

Support (restricted access for CS Department only)

All of the Department's network, hardware, and software resources are fully supported by the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF), a group of software and hardware professionals.

The CSCF maintains a set of support documents that are available to the UMass CS Community. The information within these pages is tailored to the CS Departments needs therefore we have set up restricted access to these pages. Click here to visit these pages.