Computer Science Instructional Lab (CSIL)
Location: Engineering 1, Room 1138
Eligibility for Use: Computer Science Faculty, Staff, Students (Grads and Undergrads), and Guests
Support Contact: support@cs.ucsb.edu
Availability: Schedule for CSIL
CSIL is the department's primary open-access facility. Computer Science students or students enrolled in classes offered by the department may use the lab. Forty-eight computers running the Fedora Core 6 operating system are available 18 hours a day, for completing homework, for study, and for communicating with fellow students. Consultants are available in the late afternoon and evening hours to help new users make their way around the system. A high speed, duplexing laser printer is dedicated to serving CSIL users' printing needs.
CSIL Remote Access
Location: N/A
Eligibility for Use: Same as CSIL
Support Contact: support@cs.ucsb.edu
Availability: Self-Service open 24x7
To ease remote access needs in the CSIL, the department maintains as server named csil.cs.ucsb.edu. This is a dual processor Intel with 1GB of RAM running Fedora Core 4. You can use this computer as your remote login box, but please be considerate of other users and minimize your individual impact on this computer.
Graduate Student Lab (GSL)
Location: Engineering 1, Room 1132
Eligibility for Use: Computer Science Faculty and Graduate Students
Support Contact: support@cs.ucsb.edu
Availability: Self-Service Lab open 24x7
This lab is reserved exclusively for graduate students and their work. It contains twenty-four computers running Fedora Core 6. A high speed, duplexing laser printer serves the graduate students' printing needs.
CISE/IGERT Beowulf Cluster
Website: www.cs.ucsb.edu/department/tech_support/labs/ci/
Location: Engineering 1, Room 1140
Eligibility for Use: Special Access
Support Contact: support@cs.ucsb.edu
Availability: Special Access
This cluster of high-performance PC's contains 65 dual-processor Xeon 2.6GHz machines (1 Head node + 64 compute nodes). Each with 3GB of PC2100 memory, a gigabit ethernet NIC, and 2 32GB Ultra-320 SCSI drives. Research done on the CISE/IGERT cluster should include this acknowledgement:
- Infrastructure for the research was partially funded by the National Science Foundation through grants EIA-0080134 and DGE02-21715.
