Students explore and experiment with fundamental ideas and applications in computer-equipped classrooms. Computing facilities include UNIX and LINUX workstation labs, PC labs, and various special-purpose labs for computer graphics, software engineering, operating systems, computer networks, and databases.

Lab Hours

Help for the computer labs is provided by staff in Pearce Hall 421 when a consultant is not on duty in the Auxiliary Lab.

Auxiliary Lab (Pearce Hall 401)

The Auxiliary Lab consists of software from multiple labs. It is a place for students to work if class is being taught in the lab they need. It also contains 3 general purpose printers, which serve this lab, the Database Lab and the Multimedia Lab.

This lab is staffed by a consultant whenever the Department of Computer Science labs are open.

Hardware

• 14 HP dc7900 with Intel Core 2 Duo Processors @ 3.00GHz, 2.0GB RAM, 250 GB SATA hard drives, Gigabit ethernet

Software

• Adobe Design Premium CS5: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, InDesign
• Adobe Reader
• Audacity
• BlueJ
• Cygwin
• Director MX 2004
• Eclipse
• Internet Explorer with Macromedia Shockwave and Flash
• Izarch
• Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition including Access, Excel, FrontPage, InfoPath, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, Word
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET with .NET Framework
• MySQL
• Neatbeans
• Notepad++
• Oracle
• PuTTY (Secure Shell)
• Python
• Quick Time Player
• Rational Rose
• RealPlayer
• Sound Forge XP
• VLC Media Player
• Windows 7 64-Bit
• WinSCP

CANAL: Central Advanced Network Architecture Laboratory
(Pearce Hall 100 and 101)

Central Advanced Network Architecture Laboratory (CANAL) is a student-managed laboratory designed to provide a working, hands-on place where students of networking, information technology and business classes can practice with and engage the technology they learn about.

CANAL also functions as a research opportunity for the students managing the lab and offers a hands-on working opportunity for many student employees.

Hardware

• 30 HP dc7800 workstations with Intel Core 2 Duo processors @ 2.33 GHz, 2.0 GB RAM, 80 GB SATA hard drives, Gigabit ethernet
• 30 Cisco 1721 routers
• 8 Cisco 1841 routers
• 12 Cisco 2950 switches
• 21 Cisco 2924 switches

CPS-100 Lab (Pearce Hall 424)

This lab is used for the hands-on portion of the CPS 100 course. The lab is available to the CMU community when classes are not in session.

Hardware

• 50 Dell Optiplex GX620 workstations with Pentium Dual Core processors @ 2.0 GHz, 1.0 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drives, Gigabit ethernet, and Dell SXGA flat panel displays

This lab includes one instructor station and two printers.

General Use Software

• Adobe Reader
• Audacity
• BlueJ
• Cygwin
• Eclipse
• Internet Explorer with Macromedia Shockwave and Flash
• Izarch
• Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition including Access, Excel, FrontPage, InfoPath, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, Word
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET with .NET Framework
• Neatbeans
• Notepad++
• PuTTY (Secure Shell)
• Python
• Quick Time Player
• RealPlayer
• VLC Media Player
• Windows 7 32-Bit
• WinSCP

Database and Software Engineering Lab (Pearce Hall 402)

This lab is used for database administration classes and virtualization. It is available to the CMU community when classes are not in session.

Hardware

• 40 Gateway E-4300 workstations with Pentium 4 processors @ 3.2 GHz; 2.5 GB RAM, 40 GB hard drives, Gigabit ethernet, and Gateway XGA flat panel displays.

Lab Software

• Adobe Reader
• Audacity
• BlueJ
• Cygwin
• Eclipse
• Internet Explorer with Macromedia Shockwave and Flash
• Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition including Access, Excel, FrontPage, InfoPath, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, Word
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET with .NET framework
• MySQL
• Neatbeans
• Notepad++
• Oracle
• PuTTY 0.60 (Secure Shell)
• Python
• Quick Time Player
• Rational Rose
• RealPlayer
• VLC Media Player
• Windows 7 32-Bit
• WinSCP

ITC 190 Lab (Pearce Hall 422)

This lab is for ITC 190 students only.

Hardware

• Desktop workstations

This lab includes one instructor station and one printer.

Multimedia Lab (Pearce Hall 400)

The Multimedia Lab contains web page, graphical, and video authoring tools. The lab is available to the CMU community when classes are not scheduled.

Hardware

• 25 workstations with Intel Core 2 Duo processors @ 3.0 GHz, 4.0 GB RAM, 80 GB SATA hard drives, nVidia 8400 GS graphics cards, Gigabit ethernet, and HP 17" SXGA flat panel displays.

This lab includes one instructor station. Printers for this room are located in Pearce Hall 401.

General Use Software

• Adobe Design Premium CS5: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, InDesign
• Adobe Reader
• Audacity
• BlueJ
• Cygwin
• Director MX 2004
• Eclipse
• Internet Explorer with Macromedia Shockwave and Flash
• Izarch
• Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition including Access, Excel, FrontPage, InfoPath, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, Word
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET with .NET Framework
• Neatbeans
• Notepad++
• PuTTY (Secure Shell)
• Python
• Quick Time Player
• RealPlayer
• Sound Forge XP
• VLC Media Player
• Windows 7 64-Bit
• WinSCP

Special Purpose Lab (Pearce Hall 419)

This lab is used for classes requiring a special machine setup.

Hardware

• 7 Gateway E-4300 workstations with Pentium 4 HT processors @ 3.2 GHz, 2.0 GB RAM, ATI X1300 graphics cards, Gigabit ethernet, and Dell 17" SXGA flat panel displays.

Software

Lab software changes based on the needs of the class using the lab.

Sun Solaris Lab (Pearce Hall 423)

This lab is used for programming courses. Logins to this lab are limited to students registered in Computer Science or Information Technology courses.

Hardware

• 30 Sun Ultra 20 computers with AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 148 @ 2.2 GHz, 1.0 GB RAM, nVIDIA Quadro NVS285 graphics cards, Gigabit ethernet, and Sun 19" flat panel displays.

This lab includes one instructor station.

General Use Software

• BlueJ
• ddd - GNU Data Display Debugger
• Eclipse
• Emacs - GNU Emacs Editor
• gcc - The GNU C compiler
• gdb - GNU source level debugger
• GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
• gmake - GNU make
• gnuplot - The Gnuplot Plotting Utility
• GNU sed - streaming editor
• GNU Zip (gzip) compression utility
• Java
• Joe - Text Editor
• Mozilla Firefox
• Netbeans
• Perl
• Python
• Solaris 10u7
• StarOffice 8
• Sun Studio 12
• Tetex - A complete TeX distribution for UNIX
• vim - Vi IMproved - a programmers text editor
• XEmacs - text editor