Facility Hardware & Software

diagram of CVL stations

The lab is equipped with 8 stations, each with dual monitors, as well as one large format wall-mounted 80" LCD display, and various supporting equipment. Descriptions of each station can be found below (last updated August 2016).

 

workstation 1Station 1: Mac Pro OS 10.10

  • OS: 10.6 (Snow Leopard with X11 and Unix functionality)
  • CPU: Dual 2.93GHz Quad Core Xeon Processors (8 cores total)
  • RAM: 16GB DDR3 1066MHz Error Correcting (6 available slots for upgrades) 
  • Video: Dual NVIDIA GT120 512MB (64 total stream processors)
  • Hard Drives: Dual 1TB SATA Hard Drives (7200 RPM)
  • DVD Writer

workstation 2Station 2: Linux (Ubuntu v14.04 lts)

  • All server-grade hardware
  • Dell Precision T7500
  • OS: Red Hat Enterprise 64 bit
  • CPU: Dual Xeon 5590 3.3GHz (8 cores total)
  • RAM: 24GB RDIMM 1333MHz Error Correcting (6 DIMMS total 6 available for upgrades)
  • Video: Quadro FX 4800 1.5GB (192 Stream Processors)
  • Hard Drive: 600GB hard drive space (SAS interface, 15k RPM) with hardware RAID 5 DVD writer 

workstation 3 & 6Stations 3 & 6: Windows 10

  • Best for for small data processing and visualization
  • Dell T1700
  • OS: Windows 10 64bit
  • CPU: Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1271 v3, 3.60 GHz
  • RAM: 32GB DDR3 and DDR3L 1333/1600 at 1.5V
  • Video: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB
  • Hard Drive: 500GB SATA Hard drive (7200 RPM)

workstation 4Station 4: Windows 10 

  • Server grade RAM & CPU; workstation grade HD
  • Dell Precision T3500
  • OS: Windows 10 64bit
  • CPU: Intel® Xeon® Processor W3580 (8M Cache, 3.33 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI)
  • RAM: 24GB DDR3 800/1066/1333
  • Video: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 1.5 GB (192 Stream Processors)
  • Hard Drive: 500GB SSD Hard drive (7200 RPM)
  • DVD writer

workstation 5Station 5: Windows 10 

  • Dell Precision T5810
  • OS: Windows 10 64bit
  • RAM: 16GB, 256 SSD
  • DVD writer

workstation 7Stations 7 & 8: Windows 10 

  • Best for for high end processing and visualization
  • Dell Precision T3620
  • OS: Windows 10 64bit
  • CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 Processor, 3.7GHz
  • RAM: 32GB 2133MHz DDR4 Non-ECC
  • Hard Drive: 512GB SSD