About CISE
Departmental Resources
The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering possesses the following departmental resources.
The bulk of the disk storage comes from a Sun 7410 with 66TB of raw disk space.
There are approximately 35 servers providing services including web, email, database (mysql, oracle and postgres), Kerberos authentication, DNS, NIS, DHCP, backups via Tivoli Storage Manager, samba, NFS, LDAP, and security related services.
We have 4 sparc CPU servers (Solairs 8 and 10) which are publicly available for people to run jobs on. They range from 8GB to 32GB of memory, with CPUs from single threaded 1GHz to thirty-two threaded 1.2GHz. We have 2 Linux CPU servers with 8 GB of memory and dual 3 GHz processors.
We have one compute cluster consisting of 1 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 8.04).
We have approximately 100 PCs running Linux (Ubuntu 9.04), 190 PCs running windows variants (Windows XP primarily), and 80 PCs running Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) serving as lab machines and desktops for students, TAs, RAs, and faculty members. Of these 58 windows PCs, and 65 Linux PCs are in public labs that are available for general student use, computer lab use for classes, etc.
The networking in the department consists of a Cisco Catalyst 6513 and three Catalyst 4506's which provide routing and switch capabilities to more than 600 machines and 80 networks in the department. The network runs a mix of 100 Mb and 1Gb connections except for the servers which utilize 1Gb connections.
The network connection to the world via a 100Mb fiber connection to the University of Florida core network.
There is also a wireless network in place covering the entire building for faculty and students who have wireless notebooks and other devices.