The FreeBSD network consists of two HP ProLiant servers; one with dual Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz CPUs and 4GB of RAM; one with a Intel Xeon 3.06GHz CPU and 3GB of RAM. This network is equipped with a gigabit network and has total disk space of 600GB. All servers and workstations are running the FreeBSD 5.2 operating system, and are used as the main backbone of the Department for research, education, Int ernet, e-mail, and such.

The SUN network consists of a SUN Fire V880 server and twenty-one SUN Blade 150 workstations. The server has two 900MHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors, each with 8MB of cache, and a total of 4GB of RAM and 400GB of disk storage. Each Blade 150 workstation consists of a 650MHz UltraSPARC II-i processor, 512 MB of RAM, 18.1" LCD monitor, and 40 GB of local disk space. The SUN workstations and servers are running the Solaris 9 operating environment. These provide the primary support for computer science classes, currently over 2000 accounts installed per semester. The underlying network consists of a 100/1000 Mbps switched Ethernet, with a fiber link to the campus ATM backbone.

The Department also has a microcomputer network consisting of twenty Dell Precision 330 Pentium 4 PCs, running the MS Windows XP operating system. The laboratory is used for teaching introductory computer science classes, and available for general use by the LSU community.

The Department has two Beowulf clusters. The Networking and Multimedia Laboratory has a cluster of twenty-four 650MHz PCs connected via a switched 100Mbps Ethernet network. The cluster is running RedHat Linux, MPI and/or PVM in support of research in the area of parallel and distributed computing. Two high-end graphics workstations serve as the front-end visualization for the cluster. Information Retrieval Testing Bed consists of twelve Dell PowerEdge servers and two IBM pSeries servers connected via a 100 Mbps switch.

Other equipment currently utilized by the Department includes several SUN workstations, DEC AlphaStations, Macintosh PowerMacs, a number of PC workstations, scanners, laser and line printers.

Specific research equipment is also utilized in various research laboratories. Currently, the Department houses various research laboratories: Robotics Laboratory, Software Engineering Laboratory, Networking Laboratory, Sensor Networking and Cyb erSecurity Laboratory, Medical Image Processing Laboratory, and Scientific Computation and Visualization Laboratory. Each laboratory is a self-contained computing facility.

In addition to the Department's computing facilities, the Department has an access to a variety of other high performance computing facilities via its connection to the university's backbone network. This equipment includes the computational facilities of the LSU Office of Computing Services (OCS) and Center for Computation & Technology (CCT). The High Performance Computing division of OCS offers CASPER (Callaway Advanced Scalable Parallel Environment for Research), which is currently a 26 node IBM SP, RS/6000, and pSeries cluster.

CCT has a several high performance linux based clusters: SuperMike, SuperHelix, and MiniMike. SuperMike consists of 1024 Intel Pentiun IV Xeon 3.06 GHz Processing units. SuperHelix consists of 256 Intel Pentiun IV Xeon 2.0 GHz Processing units. MiniMike consists of 32 Intel Pentium IV Xeon 1.8 GHz Processing units. More details on these clusters can be found at www.cct.lsu.edu.

The Department of computer science provides its graduate students and undergraduate junior and senior majors with permanent computer accounts for e-mail and web services. The students can use the accounts as long as they are students in the Department. Please refer to the Account Initiation and Termination Policy for details.