Widener University

The Computer Science Laboratory is housed in Kirkbride Hall which is the science and engineering building at Widener University. It is located in room 219 and is managed by students majoring in Computer Science and Computer Information Systems under the supervision of the faculty. The laboratory currently hosts approximately 24 dual boot systems running Windows XP and Slackware 9.1. Each machine has a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 processor with 512 MB of RAM, a 64 MB GeForce4 GPU, a 52x CD Burner and a 17'' flat panel monitor. The lab is also supported by two network laser printers, color scanners and a T1 internet connection. Our NFS server is a newly installed Linux-based PowerEdged Server from Dell. We also have a Beowulf cluster consisting of 8 dual-processor P4 Xeon running PBS, MPI, High Performance C and FORTRAN compilers from Portland Group. This cluster is being used for research in parallel programming and also for teaching parallel algorithms (CSCI 349, CSCI 350). A rich assortment of software is also available including translators for C, C++, Pascal, LISP, prolog, FORTRAN, Python, Java and Cilk. Our current database software is MySQL and Oracle.