Mission	Equipment	Personnel
Getting an Account

The LECS lab is a collaborative research facility, funded by a Computer Information Science and Engineering grant from NSF (grant number CDA-9624082) and running from 1996-2001.

LECS and our mission
Our motivation
Our objectives
The core of LECS
Applications
Applications Support
LESS Facilities Usage Policy (enzo and tazio)

The equipment in the LECS lab is oriented towards graphics-intensive processing, consisting largely of Silicon Graphics machines and high-end, multiprocessor Linux machines. Currently, the lab contains and is run by:

• Six Silicon Graphics O₂s
• Four two-processor Sun Ultra II 3Ds
• Two two-processor Sun Ultra II
• Two uni-processor Sun Ultra II
• One Silicon Graphics Onyx 2 Infinite Reality
• Two Silicon Graphics Origin 200s
• Two Sun Enterprise 5500s (14 processors each)
• Three Sun Ultra 1 model 170's
• Five Intel based (200 MHz) PC systems running NT and Solaris x86
• Four Intel based (450 MHz) PC systems running NT
• One four-processor Intel based PC system running NT and Linux
• Four Intel based (450 MHz) PC systems running Linux
• One Cisco Catalyst 5000 switch
• One Cisco LS1010 ATM switch
• One WavePOINT wireless LAN switch

The chairman of the LECS lab committee is Don Fussell, and other faculty on that committee are Robert Blumofe, Simon Lam, Al Mok, and Harrick Vin. Boyd Merworth and Patti Spencer, of the CS department technical staff, are on the committee and provide technical support and advice.

It is necessary to have a faculty sponsor in order to get an account in the LECS lab (and physical access to it). The sponsor sends mail to Don Fussell, describing the proposed project, and the committee makes a decision.