For those in school (HS or college), why type of computers (and services) do your labs use?

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Like your computer labs that are open to the students to use. Ours are all the same (upgraded at the same time, etc.). Roughly 100 computers in 3 rooms here at Texas A&M Texarkana (about 1000-1200 enrolled).
The computers here are PIII 7xx (something)
Unknown ram (probably 128, cant remember)
3.5" Floppy
Zip 250
CD-RW (one room of 30 computers has these, not the other 2 rooms)
15" Viewsonics
Some have scanners hooked up, maybe 5 in each room.
Running Windows 2000
Email with a 10mb limit and 20mb of diskspace on the server for files.
T3 connection

There is a row of Macs at the front, no idea what they are, some folks use them.

About all I can remember. Nothing stellar, runs Office and everything students here use fine. Just curious what most of you guys use. I only use the lab when I need to print tons of materials (3 HP laserjets in each room), I do everything else here at my abode.

 

[Maleficus]

I never use the lab.

 

[minendo]

I work in the labs here at Purdue so I use them while I am at work. There are around 50 labs here ranging from 15-105 computers per lab. There are PC Labs, Mac Labs, and Sun Labs. The computers have just about any program you would ever need installed. Generally the labs I work in are PIII (dont know the speed) with 8x burners, 250mb zip drives.

However some of the labs have P4's with dual 17" LCD's. I love working in those labs.

Also I think every computer here is equipped with at least a 17" monitor, I have yet to see a smaller monitor except for the 15" LCD's in the lecture halls.

 

[ScottyB]

I go to Michigan Tech. I only use the CS computer but we have like 4 labs with about 20 a piece. They vay in speed from like 500 to 750 or something. They have either Sun Solaris or Redhat Linux depending on the lab. But, we get like 12.4 Gb on our account to use. Oh, and all 19" monitors.

 

[superfluousmonkeys]

I goto Louisiana State University

We have about 32,000~40,000 students so we not only have alot of computers, but diverse labs as well.

As far as I can tell the mac labs are all (or were , I don't frequent them, tagged along with a friend) IMACS with external superdisk drives.

Here the poop on the rest from our CS dept webpage

"The DEC (Compaq) Alpha Network (Telnet to server)

The DEC Alpha network consists of two 500 MHZ DEC Alpha servers, with 0.5GB of RAM and 2MB of cache each, and 42GB of total disk space. Served by these servers are 15 433MHz DEC Alpha workstations, each with 128MB of RAM, 4.3GB of disk space, and 17" trinitron color monitors. All servers and workstations are running the Digital UNIX 4.0D (Tru64) operating system with the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Graphical User Interface (GUI), and are used as the main backbone of the department for research, education, Internet, e-mail, etc. Most of the workstations are housed in the Graduate Students Laboratory in 256 Coates, and in faculty offices.


Photo: Graduate Laboratory

The SUN UltraSPARC Network (Telnet to server)

The SUN network consists of a SUN Enterprise E450 server and 20 SUN Ultra 5 workstations. The server has two 300MHz UltraSPARC II processors, each with 2MB of cache, and a total of 512MB of RAM and 28GB of disk storage. The Ultra 5 workstations each consists of a 270MHz UltraSPARC IIi processor, 64/128 MB of RAM, 17" color monitors, and 4.3 GB of local disk space. The SUN workstations and servers are running the Solaris 2.6 operating system with CDE. They are mainly used to support Computer Science classes, currently with an average of over 1900 accounts installed per semester. The SUN workstations are housed mainly in the UNIX Laboraroty in 167 Coates.


Photo: UNIX Laboratory


The Microcomputer Laboratory

The department also has a microcomputer laboratory consisting of 20 Dell Precision Workstations, and one server, all running the Windows 2000 operating system. The workstations have a Pentium IV 1.4GHz processor with 256MB RAM and 17" Trinitron monitors. The server has two-1GHz Pentim III processors, 1GB RAM and 80GB of SCSI storage. The lab is used mostly for teaching introductory Computer Science classes, and for general use by Computer Science and other LSU students. Funding for the lab was secured by a grant proposal written by Dr. Elias G. Khalaf to the Technology Fee Committee at LSU. The lab was set up in the summer of 2001.


Photo: Microcomputer Laboratory

A Cluster of Workstations

In the fall of 2000, the department completed the setup of a cluster of 24 733MHz AMD Athlon PCs running RedHat Linux, all connected via a 100Mbps Ethernet switch, in turn connected to a front-end server. The cluster is running the Message Passing Interface (MPI) software in support of teaching and research in the area of parallel and distributed computing. A high-end SGI workstation can be used for front-end visualization.

Other Computing Facilities

Other equipment currently utilized by the department includes several SUN workstations, DEC AlphaStations, Pentium PCs, Macintosh and PowerPCs, and numerous terminals, scanners, laser and line printers.

In addition to on-site equipment, the department has limited access to a variety of other machines via its connection to the University's backbone network. This equipment includes the computational facilities of the LSU System Network Computer Center (SNCC). SNCC operates an IBM mainframe, an IBM SP2 supercomputer, and several RS/6000 UNIX (AIX) workstations and servers. Many computers on campus are also available for use, especially in the public labs funded by the student technology fee. Finally, the PAWS (Personal Access Web Services) system provides all LSU students and faculty with e-mail accounts, web services, and resources for instruction.

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Pretty sweet if you ask me.

Here is the layout of our network

 

[Doodoo]

PentiumIV 1.4's...512 megs of ram...cdrw....17 inch monitors...pretty nice...the ones in the library all have lcds

 

[tigerbait]

what's up, superfluousmonkeys. Fellow LSU student here

 

[Paulson]

We have old imacs...

we have a crapload of them too :|

I think I have the only PC/laptop they own at the school here at my house... (don't worry, I was authorized to take it home )

lol...

That's what happens when you have a system operator who is a mac zealot...

 

[SWScorch]

I'm in a rural high school. Our computers range from Pentium 133s to P3 667s, all running either Win95 or Win98. And they have 14" monitors running at 640x480 @ 60Hz, with the stupidest little mice that are about 1/3 the size of my hand.... Oh I hate them.

 

[GoSharks]

my high school has A LOT of computers.

first off, every class has a p3 933 dell with 17" moniter, in addtion to any other comps already in there and the teacher's comp.

in the electronics class, we have 5 933 dells with gf2mxs in addition to the other 933 every class got. the teacher has a dell p4. also, we have maybe 8-9 imac dvs.

in the library, we have about 20-30 p3 800 dells.

language lab, about 30 p3 800s

networking lab, about 25 dells. not sure of speed, but i think 800 also.

comp app lab we have about 35 p3 933s.

english lab, about 30 imacs.

science lab, about 35 p3 667s.

all the science teachers have a p3 600 with cd burner and AIW radeon.

and then we have the cad drafting room, not sure whats in there.

and thats only the ones i know about, i think there is another lab that i am leaving out.

all comps have 17" moniters, and we have probably 15-20 lcd/dlp projectors across the school.

all this in a public high school...

but then we are smack dab in the middle of the silicon valley.

 

[yobarman]

my schools basic and library labs are pentiums and imacs.

our media lab uses G4's with dual screens, some with dual flat screens.

our SGI lab has computers that are like 6-7 years old, they suck...we're replacing them

 

[DanFungus]

In my High school, there's a 30 computer Dell lab which are maybe 400MHZ
In the City College (during Summers I take classes there) they have 3 labs of 50 SGI's computers with 17" monitors, dual 500's 256MB shared system/video RAM, and ZIP 100's

 

[DaveJ]

Where I work (here), we have at least 350-400 machines in labs all over campus... The minimum spec is a P3-450 with 128MB, all the way up to a P3 1Ghz with 256MB and a 12x burner. All machines are running Win2k Pro, and all have either a 17" monitor or 15" LCD. All labs also have access to at least one laser printer, most are HP 4000's and 4050's, but some of the bigger labs have Ricoh AP3200 and AP4500's.

Dave

 

[BMdoobieW]

The only computer lab I go to here at Cornell is the Engineering School computer lab. In there they have three rooms with about 30 computers in each and one room with 6 computers. The small room has some dual LCD monitor setups and also some CD burners. As far as the big rooms go, they did some upgrades recently and I've only been in one of the big rooms. And in that one room, all of the computers are HP Vectra P4 1.5GHz's with a bunch of different brand, approx 4 year old 17" monitors. As recent as last year they were approx P3 700MHz. They also have some old, used 17" monitors for as for $60, as is.

 

[spanky]

rutgers libraries have all new dell optiplexes. i dunno the model tho. i know its a p3... prolly 900mhz running win2000. we also just got a buttload of p4 optiplexes for many faculty members. yup... 1.6ghz p4's with 256mb ram (rd or sd? i dunno...), 80gb hd's, 19" p991's... all for what? checking email... a few word documents... yup... they sure do know how to waste dollars from student computer fees and government funding.

 

[imported_vr6]

hymm at umbc, some small college in MD, every single computer i have seen is made by dell. THe are all P3's. I am sure there are also mac labs too. an everyone can log on the the linux/unix server so i guess there are linux labs too.

 

[Utterman]

I go to a high school in Indianapolis and here we have pcs that range from Pent. 166's to unknown speeded PIII's. RAM goes from 32 megs to 128 megs. Hard drives are 2 to 20 gigs. Monitors are mostly 15" and some of them at 17". All the computers are runnig Novell Netware 5.1 with access to programs depending on the location of the computers.

 

[hans007]

we have a bunch of labs. some run p133s and ppro 200s with win NT4. those are mostly for visual c++ only. a bunch of the other labs run dell gx110s p3-600-1ghz range and winNT on those too. one lab has dual boot linux

 

[b0mbrman]

p4 1.7 and 40 gb hdd on a t3

 

Here at the LARGEST public high school in the state we've got about 100 original Imacs in the labs, and every teacher has an Imac DV in their classroom.

Stupid administration.

 

[MrNutz]

sup superfluousmonkeys

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