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= Computing Labs =
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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.
  
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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=== Public Classroom Laboratories ===
  
=== Public Laboratories ===
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Last update: September 28, 2017
 
 
Last update: November 20, 2014
 
  
 
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! Lab !! # of Machines !! Operating Systems !! Description
 
! Lab !! # of Machines !! Operating Systems !! Description
 
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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 || Windows/Linux/Mac || This classroom lab contains 52 Dell Wyse D50D thin clients, 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. These machines present 4 login choices:
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# '''CS Windows''': Windows Remote Desktop Server using a CS Login and Password
| 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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# '''eID Windows''': Windows Remote Desktop Server using an eID and password
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# '''CS Linux''': cslinux shell server using a CS Login and password
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# '''CS Mac OS X''': Mac OS X remote access host using a CS Login and Password
 
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| N022 || 15 || Windows 7 || This a general-purpose Windows lab. These machines have various hardware configurations.
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| DUE1116 || 25 || Windows 10 || 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 i7-5820K (3.3GHz) CPUs and 16 GB RAM.
 
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| N126 || 8 || Windows 7 || This a general-purpose Windows lab and classroom.
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| DUE1117 || 31 || Windows 10 || 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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| 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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| DUE1118 || 8 || Windows 10 || This a general-purpose Windows lab and our Student Center. There are 8 workstations with Intel Core i7-5557U (3.1GHz) CPUs and 16 GB RAM.
 
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| N122 || 16 || Windows 7 || These machines have been customized for graphics and gaming courses. They are Intel Core i7, 16GB Ram each
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| DUE1119 || 4 || Windows 10 || GTA Room with 4 general purpose computers.
 
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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 ===
  
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.
  
Last update: August 17, 2011
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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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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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{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2"|Hostname !! rowspan="2"|Aliases !! rowspan="2"|OS !! colspan="2"|Shell Access !! rowspan="2"|Services !! rowspan="2"|Description
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! style="width: 18%" | Server Name !! Service !! Notes
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| F/S [[#ref1|[1]]] || St [[#ref2|[2]]]
 
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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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| remote.cs.ksu.edu || Windows Remote Desktop Services || Uses CS authentication
 
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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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| remote-ksu.cs.ksu.edu || Windows Remote Desktop Services || Uses KSU eID authentication
 
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| desoto || mirror || Linux || No || No || || Local Ubuntu mirror host. Updated every 4 hrs.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| wildfire || www || Linux || No || No || Apache || Primary webserver for the department.
 
 
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=== 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.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]].

Revision as of 15:49, 28 September 2017

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: September 28, 2017

Lab # of Machines Operating Systems Description
DUE1114 53 Windows/Linux/Mac This classroom lab contains 52 Dell Wyse D50D thin clients, 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. These machines present 4 login choices:
  1. CS Windows: Windows Remote Desktop Server using a CS Login and Password
  2. eID Windows: Windows Remote Desktop Server using an eID and password
  3. CS Linux: cslinux shell server using a CS Login and password
  4. CS Mac OS X: Mac OS X remote access host using a CS Login and Password
DUE1116 25 Windows 10 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 i7-5820K (3.3GHz) CPUs and 16 GB RAM.
DUE1117 31 Windows 10 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 Windows 10 This a general-purpose Windows lab and our Student Center. There are 8 workstations with Intel Core i7-5557U (3.1GHz) CPUs and 16 GB RAM.
DUE1119 4 Windows 10 GTA Room with 4 general purpose computers.

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 CS authentication
remote-ksu.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].