Updated December 5, 2007
CU 101: MSCS General Computing Lab
This lab features 30 PCs. It also houses an HP Laserjet 5M for students to print out their work and a projector for instructors and/or teaching assistants to do brief presentations. Each PC is equipped with a 17” LCD monitor. This lab is designed to be the working lab for students of the introductory courses, including COSC 050, COSC 060, and COSC 061, but is accessible to all undergraduate and graduate students who have a valid MSCS account. Programming tutors are assigned here during the school term. software details
CU 145: MSCS Interactive Classroom for Math Education
This lab is the teaching Education classroom. It houses a number of PCs and an HP Laserjet printer.
CU 301: Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) Lab
This lab provides support for developing ubiquitous computing/pervasive computing applications and services. This lab is equipped with high end IBM PCs, Sun work stations and Hand held devices, which have both wired and wireless networks. It has a test bed of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), Smart Phones and Sensors with ad hoc short range wireless network for developing ubicomp applications and middleware services. It has also all necessary software development tools and emulation environments. The ubicomp lab focuses to enhancing the educational and research interests of students and faculty in ubiquitous computing/pervasive computing. The URL for the lab: www.mscs.mu.edu/~ubicomp
CU 301 B: Database Lab
The database lab provides infrastructure for enhancing the educational and research activities of students and faculty interested in database theory and applications.
CU 310: Systems Lab / General Computer Lab
The Systems Lab, which is located on the west side of the room, contains specialized infrastructure for studying hardware systems and operating systems. A variety of 32-bit PowerPC G3's, G4's and a 64-bit G5 XServe allow students to explore the complexity of modern computer architectures, while the XINU laboratory configuration allows students to build an operating system on a real hardware platform. In addition, this lab features dual-head Linux workstations for general purpose usage.
The General Computer Lab, which is located on the east side of the room, features 12 PCs running Windows XP. It also houses an HP Laserjet 4250tn for students to print out their work. Each PC is equipped with a 17” LCD monitor. This lab is designed to be the working lab for students of advanced classes, however, it is accessible to all students who have a valid MSCS account. software details
CU 368: Biomathematics and Bioinformatics Lab
The BCL provides a centralized physical location for the department's various teaching and research activities in Biomathematics and Bioinformatics.
CU 392: MSCS 3D Geometric Modeling Lab
This lab is dedicated to furthering the educational and research interests of students and faculty in geometric modeling, computational geometry, visualization, and related areas. Three high-end graphics computers running Windows XP on Pentium 4 Xeon processors are featured. One computer, with 3 GB of RAM at 3 GHz, has a dual processor consisting of two Pentium 4 Xeon processors, with an Intel C++ compiler supporting auto-parallelization for automatic threading of applications. The other machines have 2 GB of RAM at 3 GHz. Each machine has a high-end programmable graphics card and a 21” LCD monitor supporting 1600x1200 resolution. These computers form a LAN supporting gigabit transfer. Various types of animation, graphics, and geometric modeling software are available.
CU 410: Networks Lab
This lab is designed for Computer Network classes, including MSCS 209 and COSC 172. It contains a number of machines used to experiment with networking protocols.
CU 412: MSCS Interactive Classroom
This lab, opened in 1997, is equiped with 33 PCs giving instructors the chance to truly teach things hands on.
