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The Computing and Information Sciences department has four public computing labs, the robotics lab, a lab for Ph.D. students, and multiple research groups with labs, and a server laboratory. All of these facilities are housed in Nichols Hall. In addition to these facilities, Computing and Network Services (CNS) also has a public computing lab.
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The Computer Science department has three public computing and classroom labs, a Student Center which also has lab computers, and multiple research groups with labs, and a server laboratory. All of these facilities are housed in Engineering Hall.
  
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=== Public Laboratories ===
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=== Public Classroom Laboratories ===
  
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Last update: March 13, 2015
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Last update: August 11, 2022
  
 
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| N016 || 8 || Windows 7 || GTA Room with 8 general purpose computers and a public printer
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| DUE1114 || 53 || This classroom lab contains 52 Dell Optiplex 7080 micro form factor PCs, plus one for an instructor in the podium. The CS department uses this lab for several of our courses including CIS 101, 102, and 103. They have Intel Core i7-10700T (2.0GHz, 8-core) CPUs and 16GB RAM.
 
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| N021 || 41 || Windows/Linux || This classroom and lab contains 40 Dell Wyse D50D thin clients, plus one for an instructor. The CIS department uses this lab for some of our courses including CIS 101, 102, and 103. These machines present 3 login choices, CIS Windows (a connection to the CIS Windows Terminal server using a CIS Login and Password), eID Windows (a connection to a CTS Windows terminal Server using an eID and password) and CIS Linux (an XDMCP session to the cislinux shell server using a CIS Login and password)
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| DUE1116 || 25 || This classroom lab has machines which have been customized for graphics and gaming courses. There are 24 workstations, plus an instructor PC in the podium. They have Intel Core i7-9700K (3.6GHz) CPUs, 32 GB RAM, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics cards.
 
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| N022 || 16 || Windows 7 || This a general-purpose Windows lab. These machines have various hardware configurations.
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| DUE1117 || 31 || This lab serves dual-purposes as both classroom and CDC research area. There are 30 workstations, plus an instructor PC in the podium. They have Intel Core i7-7567U (3.5GHz) CPUs and 16 GB RAM.
 
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| N122 || 20 || Windows 7 || These machines have been customized for graphics and gaming courses. They are Intel Core i7, 16GB Ram each
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| DUE1118 || 8 || This a general-purpose Windows lab and our Student Center. There are 8 workstations with Intel Core i7-10700T (2.0GHz, 8-core) CPUs and 16GB RAM.
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| N126 || 8 || Windows 7 || This a general-purpose Windows lab and classroom.
 
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| N128 || 17 || Linux || This is our Linux laboratory. The machines are Intel i5 2500-K (3.30 GHz, 4-core) PCs with 8GB RAM running Ubuntu Linux.
 
 
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All computer labs are running the most current release of Windows 10.
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Rooms DUE1114, 1116, and 1117 have enhanced audio/visual capabilities for teaching and recording lectures. Please see our [[Classroom_Podiums|related documentation]] for information on how to use them.
  
 
=== Data Center ===
 
=== Data Center ===
  
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The CIS Data Center houses a large number of administrative servers, student and faculty servers, and BeoCat, our high performance computing cluster.
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The Engineering Hall Data Center houses a large number of servers for CS and other College of Engineering departments for classroom and research purposes, and BeoCat, our high performance computing cluster.
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Servers hosted include departmental and research web sites, department wide file services, printing services, remote desktop services for Windows, Linux and Mac OS, remote Linux shell access, and many others.
  
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Last update: August 17, 2011
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In our current configuration, the data center is supported by a 300KVA UPS. In the event of an extended power outage, all critical infrastructure servers are supported by a generator. This generator does not, however, generate enough power to sustain research computing.
  
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The following are servers that are available to the public and reachable from off-campus:
 
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| aspen || || Linux || No || No || Ganeti VM Cluster || This server provides Ganeti services for systems use.  Several servers used by the department are hosted here as virtual machines.
 
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| barracuda || selfserv || Linux || No || No || SELFSERV || This is the SelfServ server.
 
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| blazer || awstats || Linux || No || No || || Provides analysis of traffic on the department web server using awstats.
 
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| cherokee || || Linux || No || No || Ganeti VM Cluster || This server provides Ganeti services for systems use.  Several servers used by the department are hosted here as virtual machines.
 
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| chieftain || projects || Linux || No || No || gForge || This is the department's project management server. It is currently running gForge AS 5.71.
 
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| coronado || file server || Linux || No || No || NFS, DRDB || The department fileserver. THis can be access at files.cis.ksu.edu
 
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| conquest || mail smtp imap pop || Linux || No || No || SMTP IMAP POP || This is the department's internal mail server. This serves mail only for internal routing and long-term archival.
 
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| cougar || cislinux || Linux || Yes || yes || ssh || Public-access shell server, available to all CIS users
 
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| crossfire || || Linux || Yes || Yes [[#ref3|[3]]] || VMware || The purpose of this server is to provide VMware services required by some classes, such as Cybersecurity for testing and other experimentation.
 
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| desoto || mirror || Linux || No || No || || Local Ubuntu mirror host.  Updated every 4 hrs.
 
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| durango || || Linux || No || No || Ganeti VM Cluster || This server provides Ganeti services for systems use.  Several servers used by the department are hosted here as virtual machines.
 
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| falcon || cups || Linux || No || No || CUPS || This is the Linux print server. All Linux computers send print jobs to this system.
 
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| firebird || dhcp || Linux || No || No || DHCP || Department DHCP server.  Any machine that plugs into the physical network will get assigned an address from this server.
 
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| grant.w2k || || Windows 2003 || No || No || DeepFreeze || This server is used for the management of the DeepFreeze security software that is used by Windows lab workstations.
 
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| hawk || phpmyadmin || Linux || No || No || PHPMyAdmin || Web interface for CIS users to interact with their MySQL databases. 
 
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| javelin || dns-2 || Linux || No || No || DNS || Secondary DNS server for the department.
 
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| journey || mysql || Linux || No || No || MySQL || This machine is the MySQL server allowing TCP connections from any host on the K-State network
 
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| kennedy.w2k || connect || Windows 2003 || No || No || Adobe Connect Pro || Used for remote collaboration, including meetings, classes, etc.
 
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| lincoln.w2k || || Windows 2003 || No || No || Active Directory || This is the department's secondary authentication server. It provides failover auth services to both Windows and Linux workstations
 
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| polara || people || Linux || No || No || Apache || This is the webserver for individuals (students, faculty, and staff) and research groups such as Santos, MACR, KDD, ACM, and various projects.
 
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| solstice || dns-1 || Linux || No || No || DNS || This server provides primary DNS for the department.
 
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| sunfire || support || Linux || No || No || || Department support wiki.
 
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| torino|| PXE || Linux || No || No || PXE || This is the departmetn PXE server to install images over the network
 
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| vanburen.w2k || || Windows 2003 || No || No || WTS || This is the Window Terminal Server used by the thin clients in the N16 classroom lab.
 
 
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| viper || cislinux || Linux || Yes || yes || ssh || Public-access shell server, available to all CIS users
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| remote.cs.ksu.edu || Windows Remote Desktop Services || Uses KSU eID authentication
 
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| washington.w2k || || Windows 2003 || No || No || Active Directory || This is the department's primary authentication server. It provides auth services to both Windows and Linux workstations
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| cslinux.cs.ksu.edu || Linux remote shell server || Accessible by SSH/SFTP/SCP for shell or file access or [[https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php X2Go]] for remote X desktop. Use of this hostname will connect you to one of two servers: <code>cougar.cs.ksu.edu</code> or <code>viper.cs.ksu.edu</code>
 
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| wildfire || www || Linux || No || No || Apache || Primary webserver for the department.
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| remote-mac.cs.ksu.edu || Remote Mac OS X desktop || Uses CS authentication and can be reached using any RDP client
 
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<div id="ref1">[1] '''F/S''': General faculty and staff are permitted to access this machine directly. If neither faculty/staff nor students are permitted, the machine is only accessible by the systems staff.</div>
 
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<div id="ref2">[2] '''St''': Students are permitted to access this machine directly.</div>
 
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<div id="ref3">[3] Only students currently enrolled in a course or active on a project requiring access to VMware will be granted access to this server.</div>
 
  
 
=== BeoCat Computing Cluster ===
 
=== BeoCat Computing Cluster ===
  
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BeoCat is the name of K-State's beowulf cluster. This cluster contains over 100 nodes contributed by Computing and Information Sciences, Physics, and other departments. Contact [[http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~dan/ Dr. Daniel Andresen]] if you would like additional information concerning these systems.  The official BeoCat page can be found [[http://www.ksu.edu/beocat here]].
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BeoCat is the name of K-State's beowulf cluster. This cluster contains over 100 nodes contributed by Computing and Information Sciences, Physics, and other departments. Contact [[http://www.cs.ksu.edu/~dan/ Dr. Daniel Andresen]] if you would like additional information concerning these systems.  The official BeoCat page can be found [[http://beocat.ksu.edu here]].
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=== Robotics Laboratory ===
 
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The laboratory in Nichols 24 houses a number of robots, support workstations, and laptops. This lab is heavily used by the Software Engineering Project courses for presentations and other projects.
 

Latest revision as of 08:56, 11 August 2022

The Computer Science department has three public computing and classroom labs, a Student Center which also has lab computers, and multiple research groups with labs, and a server laboratory. All of these facilities are housed in Engineering Hall.

Public Classroom Laboratories

Last update: August 11, 2022

Lab # of Machines Description
DUE1114 53 This classroom lab contains 52 Dell Optiplex 7080 micro form factor PCs, plus one for an instructor in the podium. The CS department uses this lab for several of our courses including CIS 101, 102, and 103. They have Intel Core i7-10700T (2.0GHz, 8-core) CPUs and 16GB RAM.
DUE1116 25 This classroom lab has machines which have been customized for graphics and gaming courses. There are 24 workstations, plus an instructor PC in the podium. They have Intel Core i7-9700K (3.6GHz) CPUs, 32 GB RAM, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics cards.
DUE1117 31 This lab serves dual-purposes as both classroom and CDC research area. There are 30 workstations, plus an instructor PC in the podium. They have Intel Core i7-7567U (3.5GHz) CPUs and 16 GB RAM.
DUE1118 8 This a general-purpose Windows lab and our Student Center. There are 8 workstations with Intel Core i7-10700T (2.0GHz, 8-core) CPUs and 16GB RAM.

All computer labs are running the most current release of Windows 10.

Rooms DUE1114, 1116, and 1117 have enhanced audio/visual capabilities for teaching and recording lectures. Please see our related documentation for information on how to use them.

Data Center

The Engineering Hall Data Center houses a large number of servers for CS and other College of Engineering departments for classroom and research purposes, and BeoCat, our high performance computing cluster.

Servers hosted include departmental and research web sites, department wide file services, printing services, remote desktop services for Windows, Linux and Mac OS, remote Linux shell access, and many others.

In our current configuration, the data center is supported by a 300KVA UPS. In the event of an extended power outage, all critical infrastructure servers are supported by a generator. This generator does not, however, generate enough power to sustain research computing.

The following are servers that are available to the public and reachable from off-campus:

Server Name Service Notes
remote.cs.ksu.edu Windows Remote Desktop Services Uses KSU eID authentication
cslinux.cs.ksu.edu Linux remote shell server Accessible by SSH/SFTP/SCP for shell or file access or [X2Go] for remote X desktop. Use of this hostname will connect you to one of two servers: cougar.cs.ksu.edu or viper.cs.ksu.edu
remote-mac.cs.ksu.edu Remote Mac OS X desktop Uses CS authentication and can be reached using any RDP client

BeoCat Computing Cluster

BeoCat is the name of K-State's beowulf cluster. This cluster contains over 100 nodes contributed by Computing and Information Sciences, Physics, and other departments. Contact [Dr. Daniel Andresen] if you would like additional information concerning these systems. The official BeoCat page can be found [here].

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