About CISE
Departmental Computer Resources
The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering possesses the following departmental computer resources.
Storage
The bulk of the disk storage comes from a Sun 7410 with 66TB of raw disk space. An additional 60TB is provided by other servers.
Services
There are about 35 servers running a mix of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Solaris 10 providing such services as:
- web hosting;
- email;
- database hosting—MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle;
- Kerberos authentication;
- DNS;
- DHCP;
- backups via Tivoli Storage Manager;
- Samba;
- NFS;
- LDAP; and
- security related services.
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.
General Purpose Machines
We have another Sun T5220, also running Solaris 10, which is available to all Department users to run jobs on. It has 64GB of memory and UltraSPARC-T2 CPUs running at 1.2 GHz.
We also have two Linux-based CPU servers with 16GB of memory and quad-core processors running at 2 GHz.
We have 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 classes.
Compute Cluster
We have one 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).
GPU Compute Cluster
We 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.
Networking
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 via 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 a 100Mb fiber connection to the University of Florida’s core network.
Additionally, there is a wireless network in place which covers the entire building for faculty and students who have wireless notebooks and other devices.