Teaching Labs: Workstations
There are approximately 300 workstations (PC and Mac) available in the Huxley teaching labs. Please note that timetabled lab and tutorial sessions have priority over all other uses; details are usually posted on the door of each of the rooms, if not, please check the room timetables.
The workstations are either dual boot 64-bit Microsoft Windows 10 and 64-bit Ubuntu 24.04 Linux (all PCs in 202), or have Linux with a Windows 10 virtual machine (over half of the PCs in 219). There are 6 Macs running macOS in 206, managed by CSG.
Lab |
Hostnames |
Model (CPU) |
RAM |
Disk |
OS |
202 |
texel[01-44] |
HP EliteDesk 800 G3 TWR, Nvidia GPUs (Geforce 730GT 2GB) |
16GB |
512GB SSD |
Dual Boot (Linux/Windows 10) |
206 |
oak[01-38] |
HP EliteDesk 800 G6 TWR, |
16GB |
512GB SSD |
Linux |
206 |
perry[01-06] |
Apple Mac Minis M1 (maintained by CSG) |
16GB |
1TB |
MacOS |
210 |
cedar[01-07] |
Intel NUC12WSKi7 |
32GB |
1TB SSD |
Linux |
210 |
gpu[01-36] |
Various HP Z series / Custom PCs, Nvidia GPUs (Titan XP, 1080, Quadro P4000, RTX 2080Ti) |
16-64GB |
250GB-1TB |
Linux |
219 |
ash[01-41] |
Custom PC featuring |
16-32GB | 1TB SSD | Linux |
219 |
beech[01-20] |
Custom PC featuring |
16GB |
1TB SSD |
Linux |
219 |
willow[01-20] |
Custom PC featuring |
16GB |
1TB SSD |
Linux |
219 |
vertex[01-22] |
HP EliteDesk 800 G4 TWR, Nvidia GPUs (Geforce 730GT 2GB) |
16GB |
512GB SSD |
Linux |
219 | ray[01-26] |
HP EliteDesk 800 G3 TWR, Nvidia GPUs (Geforce 1080 8GB) |
16GB |
512GB SSD and 2TB /data disk |
Linux |
221 | maple[1-10] |
MinisForum AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS Mini PC |
64GB | 2TB NVME | Linux |
221 | curve[01-12] |
Lenovo ThinkCentre M725s AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2600 |
16GB | 480GB NVME | Linux |
225 | pixel[01-40] |
HP EliteDesk 800 G4 TWR, Nvidia GPUs (Geforce 730GT 2GB) |
16GB | 512GB SSD | Linux |
General notes:
- At some times, the gpu machines may be allocated to specific students for project use - if so the affected machine(s) will not be available for general access.
- Almost all general-purpose lab computers feature a basic, discrete CUDA-capable graphics card.
- Some GPU workstations are fitted with more advanced, Nvidia CUDA-capable cards.
- CUDA is not installed on the local disk, versions old and new can instead be loaded from /vol/cuda/ - eg. from a shell script
- All systems have flat panel LCD colour displays, and are networked via 1Gb/s Ethernet.
- The ash, beech, cedar, willow, ray and vertex machines are single-boot Linux. Windows may be available as a virtual service on these machines through the command winvm start .
- See the Linux services page for information on remote login.
Special Test software/services
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Wayne Luk's Custom Computing group have node-locked licenses for the Maxeler FPGA Hardware Compiler (see the Maxeler website) to run on some lab machines. The software itself lives in /vol/cc, and is intended to be used for MSc projects and practicals for the Custom Computing course, please email Wayne Luk for more information.