The Department of Computer Science (College of Arts and Sciences) is located in the Computer Information Systems (CIS) building that opened in 2007, a 51,731 square-foot state-of-the-art facility funded by the North Carolina State Bond campaign of 2000 at a cost of $12.8 million. The CIS building contains several state of the art labs including a Digital Arts lab and a networking lab, research facilities, fully-equipped “smart” classrooms, and a 128 seat auditorium.  The CIS building also features several “sandboxes” – small conference rooms equipped with plasma displays that are often used by students collaborating on projects. Dedicated server rooms in the building house computing equipment that supports teaching and research in computer science, and virtually all computer science classes are taught in classrooms in the building. Also located in the CIS building are offices for computer science faculty and graduate students, and a well-furnished student lounge complete with microwave, refrigerator and plasma TV!

Computing Cluster

• 15 cluster nodes w/60 processors and 140GB memory connected with a Cisco Catalyst Express 500 with Fiber uplink

  • 6 Dell PowerEdge 1850 Servers

    • 2 Dual Core Xeon processors 2.8GHz memory

    • 12 GBs system memory

    • 2 72GB SCSI Drives in hardware Raid 1

    • 2 - Gb Network connections

  • 9 Sunfire X4100 servers

    • 2 Dual Core AMD Opteron Processors 285 (2.6GHz)

    • 8 GBs system memory

    • 2 72GB SCSI Drives in hardware Raid 1

    • 4 -Gb Network connections

  • Software:

    • Rocks Cluster 4.3

    • Sun Grid Engine

    • Globus Toolkit 4.04

    • MPI

    • Matlab (2 research licenses shared with Dept of Math and Statistics)

      • Wavelet Toolbox

      • Statistic Toolbox

      • Distributed Computing Toolbox (with licenses for 8 cores)

    • GCC, Java,Fortran 77, Prolog, lisp and other programming languages.

    • SAS

SERVERS & STORAGE

• Coraid ATAoE 15 slot SATA/RAID appliance with NAS Gateway

  • 10 – 250GB SATA drives in hardware Raid 5 (3.7 Terabytes of storage)

• Apache 2.2 Server with Tomcat 6

• MySQL 5

• IIS 6 Server

• SQLServer 2005

• VMWare Server with Linux and Windows distributions

• Dell 120T PowerVault Tape Library w/ Quantum SDLT 160/320GB tapes backed up with Arkeia Enterprise Backup software

• Standalone Quantum SDLT 160/320GB Tape Backup

Networking Lab

• Cisco Cataylst Express 500 series switches

• Netscreen Juniper Firewall

• Assorted Windows/Linux computers

• Private internal network with separate outside connection off campus network

• Cisco Academy hardware including switches, routers and firewalls

• Cables, tools, hubs and other network lab equipment

Digital Arts Lab

• 12 Dell Precision Workstations

  • Dual core Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz

  • 4 GB memory

  • 2 – 80GB SATA Drives

  • 1 – Multi-card reader for CF, MS, SD and xD/SM cards

  • DVD-RW

  • Nvidia Quadro FX4500 w/512 MBs graphics memory

  • 20” Dell Digital LCD Monitor

  • 21” Cintiq Tablet (on one machine)

  • 3D Connexion Space Navigator (on 4 machines)

  • Software (Varies on machines)

    • Maya 8.5 (on all machines)

    • Deep Paint

    • Adobe Photoshope, Premiere, InDesign

    • Alias Sketch

    • Qube Distributed Rendering system

• 2 Mac PowerMacs G5

  • 2 PowerPC Processrs 2.3GHz

  • 4 GB memory

  • 1 – 250GB SATA Drive

  • 1- DVD-RW

  • Nvidia GeForce 6600 w/256 MBs graphics memory

  • 20” Apple Cinema Display

  • 1- 21” Cintiq Graphics Table (on 1 machine)

• 2 20” iMacs

  • Intel Core Duo Processor 2 GHz

  • 2 GB memory

  • 1 – 250GB SATA Drive

  • 1 – DVD-RW

  • ATI X1600 Radeon w/256MBs graphics memory

  • 3DConnexion Space Navigator

  • Software (generally on Macs)

    • Adobe CS2 Suite

    • Maya 8.5

    • Final Cut Pro

    • Shake

    • Qube Distributed Rendering system

• Epson R1800 Photo Printer

• Epson 4490 Digital Scanner

• Next Engine Desktop 3D Scanner

• 42” Sony Plasma HDTV

Standard Classroom/Lab Computers

• 46 - Dell GX620 w/512 MB memory, Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor, 80 GB SATA Drive, CD-RW, ATI 128 MB Graphics, 17” Dell Digital LCD monitor

• 36 - Dell GX745 w/1 GB memory Intel Pentium Dual Core 3.2 GHz processor, 80 GB SATA Drive, CD-RW, ATI 256MB Graphics, 17” Dell Digital LCD monitor