The Computer Science Department provides a number of shared computing
resources for the various research and instructional
activities of the department. Serving the many diverse
areas across the computer science spectrum, the
facility provides networking, disk storage and backup,
general-purpose timesharing access to multiuser
systems, email, and workstation support. The total
computing resources of the Department are much greater
than this central core; focused research groups
have many machines not listed here, but connected
to the departmental LAN.
The
department's central facilities are for the
support
of research, and are open to graduate students,
faculty and staff. This facility is based
upon
multiple Sun servers running Solaris
with sharing of file systems provided via NFS.
All user's directories
are stored on a RAID system. The departmental
LAN is based on Ethernet and TCP/IP. Aside
from
the central servers, hosts on the LAN include
more than 600 workstations and personal computers.
The
computing faciltiy also manages various computing
laboratories: among them are a graduate student
workstation room with workstations from Sun,
Sun Rays (thin
client machines),
PC's from Dell and Apple. The facility also
manages several undergraduate computer architecture
laboratories.
The
LAN is implemented with a gigabit backbone
and 10/100 autosensing switched connections
to the desktop. Additionally, the departmental
network is connected to the UCLA campus backbone
via a gigabit connection. There is also a
802.11B wireless network available
throughout the deparmtent. The CSD network
is closely linked to the UCLA School of Engineering
and Applied Science network (SEASnet) that
includes IBM servers and workstations, and
PC-based labs, supporting classes and giving
access to undergraduate students. |
