Infrastructure Organization

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Infrastructure Organization

• Tim KorbDirector, Computing FacilitiesDepartment
  of Computer SciencesPurdue University

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Outline

• Past and current award activities
• Existing infrastructure
• Computer Science
• Others
• Multimedia Support Infrastructure

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Past and Current Award Activities

• Previous NSF Infrastructure Awards
• Computing About Physical Objects
• Softlab
• Intel Technology for Education Award
• Internet 2 vBNS/Abilene Award

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Existing Infrastructure CS

• Machine RoomCS 277
• CERIAS LabCS G50
• Network Systems LabCS G16

• Systems Software Architecture LabCS 279
• Multimedia Database LabMA 431

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Laboratory Highlights

• Research
• SGI Origin 2000
• 16-processor IA cluster
• Instructional
• Undergraduate Turing lab
• Graduate systems lab
• 800 network ports ATM, 10/100 Ethernet, Myrinet,
  Wireless

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SGI Origin 2000

• 32 processors
• 16 GB memory
• Dual Infinite Reality 2 graphics pipes

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Intel Architecture Cluster

• 16 processors
• 400 MHz PII
• 256 MB memory
• 4 GB disk

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Undergraduate Lab

• 25 Intel Architecture PII
• Windows NT
• Visual Studio J

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Graduate Systems Lab

• 25 front end dual PII workstations
• 40 back end experimentalnetworked stations

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Wiring

• 800 network ports
• ATM
• Ethernet
• 10Base-T
• 100Base-T
• switched
• shared
• Myrinet
• Wireless

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Staff

• Hardware
• Two full-time technicians/engineers
• Student assistants
• Software
• Three UNIX support
• Three PC support
• Student assistants
• Administrative

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Existing Infrastructure Others

• Video and Image Processing Lab (MSEE)
• Distributed Multimedia Systems Lab (MSEE)
• Thermalhydralics andReactor Safety Lab (ASL)
• Basic MedicalSciences Lab(LYNN)

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Multimedia Support Infrastructure
(1) Capture
(2) Compress
(4) Network
(5) Display
(3) Store, Index, Retrieve
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MSI Support Activities

• Direct support of all research activities
• Storage, Indexing, Retrieval, Compression
• Networking
• Security
• Indirect support
• Capture
• Display

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Equipment Categories
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Equipment by Year
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Campus Equipment Locations
Math Science Bldg.
Computer Science Bldg.
Lynn Hall
Recitation Hall
Nuclear Eng.
MSEE Bldg.
EE Bldg.
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Purdue and Fisk University
Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana
Fisk UniversityNashville, Tennessee Workstations
Video camerasMPEG encoder and decoder