This room contains 15 Pentium computers running
Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems. In addition this room hosts 3 sun workstations
running the Unix operating system. Four of the Pentium WINTEL Computers have dual
Pentium processors and are capable of symmetrical multiprocessing. Eight Pentium computers
are connected around a grid, running Linux operating system. This cluster of 8 computers
is used for distributed computing opportunity to researchers and also used for teaching
EE678. This cluster is also utilized for a show-and-tell about MPI and parallel computing
architectures in the computer networks class.
Since the lab is mainly used for computer networks
and related areas it is hosted on a separate subnet. The network is isolated from
the campus backbone with a firewall and a switch and thus enables experiments in sniffers,
snooping, and other security related experiments to be executed in a safe setting.
Opnet is the state of art simulation toolkit used
for teaching computer networks. 40 licenses are provided to SDSU through an educational
program by Opnet technologies. San Diego State University has a unique experience
in modeling and simulation using Opnet and this expertise is carried into the classroom
in CompE560L.
Matlab is the tool used for teaching video compression
simulations. In addition to Matlab we do use C# and Java for image and video processing
algorithms.