Network Computing Laboratory

Overview

  • Located in the east end of PHO307

Courses Supported

  • EC441

Description

  • The Network Computing Laboratory studies interconnection network topologies; routing, network flow control, and deadlocks in multicomputer networks; multicast and broadcast, fault-tolerance in interconnection networks; modules for realization (nodes and routers); performance metrics and scalability; message passing interference, protocols and programming, scalable coherent interfact (SCI), and distributed shared memory; network of workstations (NOW), case studies of high performance scalable networks, and cluster computing.

Hardware

  • 6 Dell Optiplex 280 desktops
    • 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 processors
    • 512 MB RAM
    • Windows XP
  • Independent Ethernet and 802.11g wireless networks act as sandboxes
    • 2 Cisco 3950 level 2 switches
    • Linksys wireless Router

Software

Faculty

Starobinski

Contact Staff

Goebel