What Computer Hardware Does Your College/University/Work use?

[TurtleCrusher]

I'm presently at Portland Community College, and after running CPUz and GPUz on PC (identical to all other PC's in the lab) they run with an:

AMD Athlon X2 3800+ (2ghz)
2GB DDR2
Radeon X1300pro.

All in all, its overkill for what most people use it for.

What does you university have in its public computer lab? Or maybe even work supplied computers?

 

[tokie]

Depends on what lab. Some use SPARC, some Intel. But no AMD.

For the most part they are Core 2 Duo desktops which are reasonably speedy.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

It's extremely varied around UW-Madison.

We have machines from Sun, Dell, and Apple.

For the Dell PCs, they range from low end P4 configurations to Core2Duo machines.
There are iMacs up to G5s.
I have no idea on the Sun machines.

 

[lyssword]

Spokane Community college

In computer lab:
Intel e8400 (3ghz)
3gb memory
integrated graphics
19" widescreen, I believe

There are worse computers in some places, with 2.4ghz P4/smaller monitors

 

[Brainonska511]

An amalgam of Dells and Sun Microsystem computers throughout the University of Chicago. Most of the Sun systems are e-mail terminals. The computer clusters are all Dell computers, from the last 2-3 years.

 

[Demo24]

Ours are typically Dell's, usually just a few years old. I suspect they have upgrade tracks built in. Some are Intels, others AMD(my work machine is a AMD x2). Also scattered around are some newish iMac's which run core 2 duos.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

BCIT...I'm taking an entry-level computer science class one evening a week.

The lab I use has brand-new Dell Optiplex workstations:

C2D E8400 (3 Ghz)
4GB RAM
Intel graphics (x4500 I think)
Windows XP 64-bit
22-inch Dell widescreen LCDs

God damn, these things are speedy!

Then again, my work PC is a P4 3 Ghz/1GB machine, so almost anything wallops that tortoise :laugh:.

 

[xSauronx]

it varies. mostly dell and hp, a mix of amd an intel stuff. i go to a community college who takes advantage of the states purchasing program to buy new pcs. the school tells they state they need X number of PCs and have $$ to spend and the state tallies together all they need and the funds available with whoever needs pcs and gets bids. last bunch we got was a bunch of phenom machines from HP. from what ive seen, a majority of the machines are Dells, and many are several years old.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

University of California, Irvine

Workstations in my lab: (Protein Rendering machine, about 10 of these)

Dual Xenon X5550 (2.66 ghz)
12 gb ram
2 tb RAID
Quadro NVS 420
24" Ultrasharp LCD

Campus wide

C2D 2.6
4 gb ram
500 gb HDD
Integrated gfx

Theres a lot more but those are the ones I use. Theres some low power HP ones in the library and a few macs here and there.

 

[rudeguy]

All Dells locked down so tight that we can't even see the exact specs. I know they have 2 gig AMD CPU's and 2 gigs of Ram. I'm guessing onboard video.

My station has a 19" LCD...some have 17". Some still have mouse balls....wonder how old those things are????

 

[narzy]

We were an HP shop and before that Gateway, the Gateway machines are all P4, some HT, some not. Most video cards are ATI that I know of.

The HP machines are Core2Duo (don't know the speed off the top of my head) w/ 2 or 4 gb of ram depending on the usage, we also have some workstation class HP's with dual Xeon processors and a butt-ton of ram for our GIS guys.

All our video is upgraded to the midrange option so they all have PCIe video (except for the gateway which are AGP)

Recently we switched to Dell because HP was jerking us around, quoting one price and delivering on another. sending accessories that we didn't ask for and charging us for them so we had to send them back and wait for HP to issue a refund...the list goes on...

Our network switching fabric is all HP now and those have been great for us, our routing is all still Cisco. Our phones are Avaya.

All of our enterprise servers are HP.


I only know this because I've installed most of it

 

[KeithTalent]

At work:

Intel C2D E6550 @ 2.33
2 GB RAM (unknown brand)
Hitachi 75 GB drive
Intel integrated graphics
HP 17" monitor - the worst part, I want a larger monitor.

KT

 

[funkymatt]

Set the new engineering standard with i7 920 3GB ram 300GB 10k rpm drive, but my build systems have EE processors in them, either i7 965 or the newer ones are getting 975.

 

[ghost recon88]

Michigan State bought a load of GX620s a few years ago, most of those are Pentium D 3-3.4GHz with 2GB RAM each and Intel graphics.

Just recently they've started upgrading those to 755s and 760s which are all C2D based with 2GB of RAM as well, and all running Windows XP Pro.

 

[thegimp03]

At work I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 C2D T7500 (2.2ghz), with 4 GB of RAM and a NEC 225WNXM LCD.

 

[oiprocs]

I'll get back to you.

 

[jchu14]

University of Texas at Austin Aerospace Engineering undergraduate computer lab uses a variety of Dells Optiplex ranging from p4 2.4ghz to core 2 duos.

My workstation (grad student) just got upgraded a month ago from a P4 2.0ghz with 1gb ram and one screen to Core2Quad 3ghz with 8gb of ram and dual screen. It was a glorious day. Someone else in my group is running dual quad-core xeons with 14gb of ram!

 

[jlee]

I think we have C2D T7400's / 2Gb in the cars..I'd have to check.

 

[Paratus]

386s @ 12 or 16 mhz with 2-8MB of Ram and 300MB of storage


However I guarantee these 386s are orders of magnitude faster than any machine in this thread - even the i7 extremes.....

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: Paratus
386s @ 12 or 16 mhz with 2-8MB of Ram and 300MB of storage


However I guarantee these 386s are orders of magnitude faster than machine in this thread - even i7 extremes.....

Do you work on a space shuttle or something?

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: InflatableBuddha

Originally posted by: Paratus
386s @ 12 or 16 mhz with 2-8MB of Ram and 300MB of storage


However I guarantee these 386s are orders of magnitude faster than machine in this thread - even i7 extremes.....

Do you work on a space shuttle or something?

Close

They're on the ISS.

So they're about 17,500 mph fast.

 

[nageov3t]

everyone has dual monitors and a thin client at their desk.

from the thin client, everyone (except our unix and dev teams) connects to one of 5 random app servers... the servers are all HP DL360 G5's with dual quad core 2.8 cpu's and 12GB ram.

our unix and dev guys connect to a mac server I believe.

 

[duragezic]

At work:

C2D E6750
2 GB ram
Radeon X1600
2x 19" HP LP1965 LCD

Pretty nice and I was one of the first to get those machines since I just started. Most people have since gotten upgraded to these machines but a few people still have P4s with 512mb ram. Not good when you use Matlab or other hefty programs. And it doesn't help they use McAfee which takes a ridiculous amount of memory even when not scanning.

At school the CS labs were older machines (P4?) but they were Fedora and not much intensive programs. The EE labs were P4s with 512-1024mb ram but my last year most were replaced with C2Ds and 2GB ram. All had single 17" or 19" LCDs.

Overall pretty good machines.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Work machine is:
Dell Precision M4400
Core 2 Duo T9500? It's 2.67ghz I think.
8 gigs of RAM
Quadro FX 770M
1920x1200 screen
Windows Server 2008 R2

Have a dock and dual 22" monitors on my desk.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: lyssword
Spokane Community college

In computer lab:
Intel e8400 (3ghz)
3gb memory
integrated graphics
19" widescreen, I believe

There are worse computers in some places, with 2.4ghz P4/smaller monitors

Mission Campus?

IIRC, the Ft. George Wright campus is still SFCC...right?

At one time, they were going to merge both districts into one and call it all SCC.

(went to SCC and SFCC in the mid 70's)

At Modesto Junior College where I just graduated, the computer specs depended on what the intended use was going to be. Architecture and computer graphics labs had the best boxes, high-end ATI graphics cards, more RAM, faster processors, but ALL Dell machines.
The writing labs also had Dells, and a few older Gateways, the "general labs" were all Dells and some had good graphics cards, (reserved for architecture and computer graphics use) while others were just run-of-the-mill PC's with no high-end components.

MOST of them had things pretty tightly locked up so the most that was ever available was the general info on processor and amount of RAM.