Workstations

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.

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

• 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.