The Institute operates a variety of computing equipments to support the research and instructional need of UPLB students and faculty. These equipments are interconnected within local area networks that are directly connected to the Internet.

Current computers include:

• A variety of SUN machines: Sun Fire V60, Sun Ultra Sparc, Sun Sparc 20's, Sun Sparc 10's, SUN IPX, and Sun Sparc Classics
• DEC Station and DEC PC's
• Hundreds of current Intel- and AMD-based PCs

These machines are running a variety of UNIX and licensed MicroSoft operating systems (Solaris, Linux, BSD, Windows NT/98, etc).

RESEARCH AND TEACHING LABORATORIES

There are currently 12 fully air-conditioned student research and teaching laboratories, 10 of which are equipped with 16-24 workstations that are connected to the Internet. These laboratories also function as classrooms and training rooms that can accomodate 16-24 persons. These are:

• Symbolic Programming Laboratory (PS C-100);
• Machine Level Programming Laboratory (PS C-101);
• Data Communication and Networking Laboratory (PS C-111);
• Undergraduate Laboratory (ICS PC-Lab 0);
• Information Technology Laboratory (ICS PC-Lab 1);
• Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (ICS PC-Lab 1);
• Object-Oriented Programming Laboratory (ICS PC-Lab 1);
• Programming Languages Laboratory (ICS PC-Lab 1);
• Graduate Laboratory (ICS PC-Lab 1);
• Database Programming Laboratory (ICS PC-Lab 1);
• Graphics/Robotics/BioComputing Laboratory (SparcLab); and
• Client-Server Computing Laboratory (ICS IT Lab).

CLUSTER AND GRID COMPUTERS

The Institute also maintains two clusters for high-performance computing research and for teaching parallel computing. The first cluster is a general-purpose 11-node Intel-based cluster running under Linux with a variety of parallel programming APIs such as PVM, LAM/MPI, and MPICH. The number of nodes in this cluster can be temporarily increased, depending on the demand of the parallel application, to a maximum of 255 nodes utilizing all the workstations in the above listed laboratories during the laboratories' idle times. The second cluster is a 10-node Sun Ultra-based cluster running under Linux. The second cluster maybe used to test for the portability of the parallel applications being developed in the Institute. Future plans include participating in the international grid computing efforts such as the Protein Folding computation and SETI@Home.

LECTURE HALLS

The Institute also maintains four 100-seat air-conditioned lecture halls that are equipped with multimedia systems connected to the Internet. These halls are:

• ICS Lecture Hall 1 (ICS LH1);
• ICS Lecture Hall 2 (ICS LH2);
• ICS Lecture Hall 3 (ICS LH3); and
• ICS Lecture Hall 4 (ICS LH4).

ICS LIBRARY

The Institute maintains a library that houses approximately 1,000 book titles, journals, magazines, theses, and special problem manuscripts. Our Alumni are the most active contributors to the upgrading of our book stocks.

WIRELESS ACCESS POINT

The Institute provides a secured wireless access point (WAP) for mobile computers and laptops of students. The WAP has an effectivity radius within the PhySci building.