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  • The Department of Computer Science  has five teaching computer labs. Each lab contains 35 PCs running under windows XP environment. Ceiling mounted LCD projectors are available in all these labs. These labs are extensively used for teaching.

  • The department has one Open Access computer lab containing 64 PCs. These PCs are configured for both Windows XP and LINUX environment. This lab is a multi-purpose lab used for student assignments, workshops, tutorials, teaching sessions.

  • The department has one UNIX lab containing 17 Sun workstations running the Solaris operating system. Several multimedia-based packages are available for use on the Unix machines allowing flexible management of both sound and images. This lab is used for teaching as well as for student projects and faculty research activities.

  • One PC lab is available for the exclusive use of computer science students. This lab has 30 Pentium D945 3.4 GHz and Pentium 4 3.2 GHz computers with 17 inch LCD TFT monitors. Oracle, Exceed, Ethereal and Graphical software are installed in this lab. Wireless networking equipment is also installed in this lab.

  • Four resource rooms are also available for the students working on their projects. Two of these resource rooms are for the MSc male and female students and the other two are for the BSc male and female students. Every project student is provided with a separate PC. 

  • A parallel and distributed computing research lab is available for academic staff and students. This lab is equipped with a Linux-based cluster of workstations interconnected by a high-speed Myrinet network supporting projects and research in parallel and distributed computing.

  • A specialized Multimedia research lab is being prepared. It will be equipped with all the necessary multimedia hardware and software. This lab will be used by the faculty for its research activities as well as by the students. The lab will also be available for Software Engineering research.

  • All the labs, as well as faculty and staff offices are connected to the university wide network and to the Internet.

  • Other accessories including laptops, LCD projectors, CD-writers, scanners, color printers, etc  are also available in the department

 

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