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Located on the Sir George Williams Campus in the heart of downtown Montreal, computing facilities for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are provided by the centralized IT services of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.
The client systems dedicated for teaching provide almost 200 seats (56 are Solaris workstations with the remainder Windows/Linux systems) for students to do course assignments, prepare for labs and perform laboratory experiments. In addition, there are over 1600 PC's are integrated in a gigabit Network, in addition to a 16 terabyte NAS file server, numerous "Services" and "Application" servers, and a modern HPC Cluster with 464 compute cores and 128 visualization cores. For graduate teaching, there are about 300 desktops available in 26 computer labs and 4 project rooms in the EV building. All systems are dual boot Linux/Windows (XP), with general Microsoft tools provided by the current Campus agreement and other special engineering applications (AutoCAD, Matlab, Rational Rose, etc.) necessary to satisfy the teaching mission. The software is updated every term and the systems are monitored closely.
Electrical and Computer Engineering research computer facilities also include a number of central application servers (5) [Enterprise E3500, SunFire 280R (4), SunBlade-1000] and X client systems (14 PC/Windows 2K, 52 X-term/Unix workstations) which can be found in our Research Laboratories: Signal and Video Processing Laboratories, Robotics and Control Group, Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory, Antenna and Microwave Laboratory, Hardware Verification Laboratory, Microelectronics Laboratory, Power Electronics Laboratory, Telesoft Laboratory, VLSI Laboratory, Wireless and Satellite Communications Laboratory. Additional resources (52 clients - 39 PC/Windows, Unix/Linux Workstations) are also available for faculty, administration, technical and part-time staff.
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