To provide the most advanced resources for teaching and research, the Department of Computer Sciences manages its own network and system of more than one thousand hosts.
Many different computer systems are available for instructional and research use by faculty members and students in the department. The department operates a high performance computing cluster with over 1100 cores that includes 128 nodes received on a matching grant from IBM and over 800 cores, along with a NetApps FAS940 checkpoint server, received on an NSF CISE grant. This cluster, as well as all public computing resources, are available to everyone via Condor, a resource management tool for widely distributed systems.
The department's technical staff, under the direction of the associate chair for operations, specifies, buys, installs, and maintains this computing infrastructure. Through accounts on the department's UNIX, Windows and Apple workstations, students, faculty members, and staff have access to public laboratories and private equipment.
