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 single boot Ubuntu 26.04, dual boot Ubuntu 26.04 Linux / Microsoft Windows 11 (all PCs in 202) , or have Linux with a Windows 11 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

yew[01-44]

HP Elite SFF 800 G9 SFF,
Intel Core i7-13700

16GB

1TB NVME

Linux

206

oak[01-38]

HP EliteDesk 800 G6 TWR,
Nvidia GPUs (Geforce GT 1030 2GB)
Intel Core i7-10700 2.90GHz

16GB

512GB SSD

Dual boot

206

perry[01-06]

Apple Mac Minis M1 (maintained by CSG)

16GB

1TB

MacOS

210

cedar[01-07]

Intel NUC12WSKi7
Intel Core i7-1260P

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
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.40GHZ, Nvidia GPUs (Geforce GT 1030 2GB)

 16-32GB  1TB SSD  Linux 

219

beech[01-20]

Custom PC featuring
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 3.80GHZ, Nvidia GPUs (GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB)

16GB

1TB SSD

Linux

219

willow[01-20]

Custom PC featuring
Intel Core i7-10700 2.90GHz,
Nvidia GPUs (GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB)

16GB

1TB SSD

Linux

219

vertex[01-22]

HP EliteDesk 800 G4 TWR, Nvidia GPUs (Geforce 730GT 2GB)
Intel Core i7-8700 3.20GHz

16GB

512GB SSD

Linux
219 rowan[01-26]

HP Elite SFF 800 G9 SFF,
Intel Core i7-13700

 16GB

1TB NVME

 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
(Geforce 730GT 2GB)

 16GB 480GB NVME Linux
225 poplar[01-40]

 

HP Elite SFF 800 G9 SFF,
Intel Core i7-13700

 

 16GB 1TB NVME Linux

General notes:

  • Almost all general-purpose lab computers feature a basic, discrete CUDA-capable graphics card.
  • GPU[01-36] 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, rowan 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.