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List of major equipment used by or held by department.
Summary Information
SGI Onyx Reality Station Graphics Engine.
- Silcon Graphics Company Onyx Procesor
- R10,000 - 250MHz CPU RISC processor,128 MB memory, two - 4 GB Hard Disk drive.
- Two RM5 Raster Manager cards for graphics Z buffering, 21" Stereo color monitor
- Irix/Unix operating system
- RE2 level graphics.
- MCO Multi-Channel Option for display to head mount
- Polhemus Corporation's Fastrak real-time 3D 6DOF (degree of freedom) magnetic tracking system for a data glove and head
mounted display.
- A Virtual Research Corporation EYEGEN4 VR4 Head Mounted Display
unit (with 720x240 resolution) for virtual reality simulations.
- OpenGL Graphics Packages routines, Sense8 Corporation's
WorldToolkit WTK R6 Virtual Reality software for Virtual World Modelling.
- Used for CS courses: Graphics and Virtual Reality, Internet programming, real-time systems.
SUN SPARC-10-ZX GRAPHICS COMPUTER WORKSTATION FILE SERVER
Dual CPU high-speed RISC processor,96 MB memory, two - 1.2 GB Hard Disk drive.
- Raster Manager card for graphics Z buffering, 21" Stereo color monitor
- Solaris Unix operating system
- CDROM drive
- Software: X-windows/Openwindows, Common Lisp, Garnet GUI system,
Quintus Prolog, SUN 'C' and C++ compiler, XIL, XGL and PHIGS
Graphics Packages routines, 3D Studio graphics, Sense8 Corporation's
WorldToolkit Virtual Reality software for Virtual World Modelling, SUNPC,
Truevoice recognition system, IN3 Voice command system.
SUN 4/330 COMPUTER WORKSTATION FILE SERVER
72 MB memory, 1GB Hard Disk drive
- Solaris Unix operating system
- CDROM drive
- Used exclusively for the CS courses in Internet programming, artificial
intelligence, real-time systems, robotics and computer vision, expert
systems, operating systems.
- Imaging Technology Inc. Vision board 1024x1024 image processing system.
- Software: X-windows/Openwindows, Common Lisp, Garnet GUI system,
Quintus Prolog, 'C' and C++ compiler, XIL, XGL and PHIGS Graphics Package.
SUN IPC WORKSTATIONS
IPC's connected to SUN 4/330 ethernet network, One SPARC 10
- Solaris operating system (SPARC 10 is running on a Solaris 2.4 operating system)
- Used for the CS courses in artificial intelligence, real-time systems,
robotics and computer vision, expert systems, operating systems.
- Software: X-windows/Openwindows, Common Lisp, Garnet GUI system,
Quintus Prolog, 'C' and C++ compilers, PHIGS Graphics Package.
MICROBOT ALPHA II ROBOT
This six axis, stepper motor driven, six degree of freedom, light industrial
robot with teach pendant and operator control is connected to SUN ethernet
network with software and vendor demonstrations.
- Specifications include: 3 pound payload, 18 inch reach, repeatability of
+/- 0.015 inches, and speed of 51 inches per second.
- Used for Robot Vision and CS451 Artificial Intelligence courses, and
faculty/student research projects.
REAL WORLD INDUSTRIES RWI-B12 ROBOTIC MOBILE BASE
This 3-wheel synchro drive base can move at speeds up to 2 meters per second, carry up to 20 kg., and can be programmed to move via a standard RS232 serial port.
- Used for CS455 Robot Vision and CS451 Artificial Intelligence course and faculty/student research projects.
IMAGING TECHNOLOGY INC. COMPUTER VISION BOARD & IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM
Two DAGE-MITI CCD high resolution cameras each with a 12.5mm lens, (six
inches apart), are used as the inputs to the binocular stereo vision
algorithm.
- The Imaging Technology Inc. FG100 board is used as the image
processor which provides 640 X 480 X (12 bits deep) resolution.
Many PENTIUMS P5s
Software: Windows '95, Office '95, Internet browsers-Netscape, 'C' compiler, Turbo Pascal, Procomm, networking tools.
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486's DX/2 66
Software: Windows NT, networking tools.
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SPARC-5 WORKSTATION (server - 64 MB memory, 11 GB in hard drive space)
25 SUN IPC WORKSTATIONS
All running on a 10-Base-T Ethernet network, using NIS+, Solaris
operating system.
- Used for undergraduate computer science courses.
- Software packages included: C, C++, PASCAL, FORTRAN, DEVGuide, MultiPASCAL, Perl, SPARCWorks, and Show Me.
- Full INTERNET connectivity:
- SPARC-5 server: Netscape Communications Server
- Software: telnet, ftp, tn3270, tin, Mosaic, Netscape, Lynx,
Gopher, and XGOPHER.
- The system administrator is Laurie Knox.
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