University of Florida :: Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)

About CISE

Departmental Computer Resources

The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering possesses the following departmental computer resources.

CISE Department

Five CISE CPU servers (a Solaris SPARC, two Linux AMD 64 and two Windows 20008R2 servers) are available via SSH, VNC or remote desktop to all users to run jobs, and to log in to from remote locations. These tend to be some of the fastest machines in the department and have the most memory.

All faculty offices are equipped with a Windows or Linux workstation. Standard software installations include Ubuntu 10.04 or Windows 7, Java, jGRASP, many Microsoft packages due to the Microsoft Development Academic Alliance, Mozilla Firefox, Second Life, and XMing (X Windows on a Windows PC). Database software includes MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Wireless access is available throughout the CSE Building and all of campus, including student dorms, cafeterias, and other public areas.

The classrooms in the CSE building have all been provided with multimedia support and computers housed in a locked kiosk. In addition, all have access to the University’s wireless network. That, combined with the college’s requirement that all students possess an adequately-provisioned laptop computer, makes it easy to access resources in the classrooms.

The bulk of the CISE’s disk storage comes from a Sun 7410 with 66TB of raw disk space. An additional 60TB is provided by other servers. There are about 35 servers running a mix of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Solaris 10 providing such services as:

Our web servers run on a Sun T5220 server with Solaris 10, 32GB of memory, and 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC-T2 CPUs. They serve Department content, user content, and various web applications that support the Department.

We have, in total, about 100 Linux PCs running Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 and 130 Windows 7 PCs. They serve as lab machines and workstations for students, Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and Faculty. Of these, 58 Windows PCs and 65 Linux PCs are in public labs that are intended for general student use as well as use in lab sections of graduate and undergraduate classes.

We provide a compute cluster consisting of a head node with dual Opterons, 16GB of memory and 3.5TB of storage with 20 worker nodes with dual Opterons and 32GB of memory running Linux (Ubuntu Server 10.04).

We also provide a GPU compute cluster comprising five machines, each with up to three different high-end GPUs for those that make use of the unique compute capabilities that GPUs provide. These machines have dual twelve core CPU’s, 64Gigabytes of memory and five TB of storage per node.

The networking in the Department consists mainly of 100 Mb and 1 Gb connections, except for the servers which utilize a minimum of 1 Gb connections. Many have higher bandwidth connections utilizing EtherChannel. Our Cisco hardware—one Catalyst 6513, one Catalyst 6509E, and three Catalyst 4506s—provides routing and switch capabilities to the more than 600 devices and 80 networks in the Department. Our external connection is via 1Gb fiber connection to the University of Florida’s core network.

A unique printing solution allows the department to offering free printing based upon a quota system to all students and Teaching and Research assistance.

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