Research Technology Laboratories
Updated on January 17, 2013

Computer Science utilizes a diverse array of equipment to meet the needs of the wide range of research done within the department. The equipment listed here have been funded by grants, donations, and leases. View the detailed list of research equipment per research group below, and click on the research group name to visit the groups' websites.

AHPCRC

Army High Performance Computing Research Center - Lab

Dr. Teller, Dr. Arunagiri, CS Room 118

Chimera Cluster:
The cluster contains an assortment of accelerator technologies and is divided into three main areas, each featuring a different processor type: Sun Niagara, IBM/Sony Cell and AMD Opteron

  • (2) Sun Fire® T2000™ - Sun Partition
    • Dual Quad-Core UltraCS SPARC® T1™ @ 1.2Hz
    • 16 GB RAM (2GB RAM per Core)
    • 73 GB Hard Drive per Core
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Solaris 10
  • (2) Sony® PlayStation™ 3 - PS3 Partition
    • 3.2GHz Cell Broadband Engine (1 PPE, 6 accessible SPEs)
    • 256 MB RAM
    • 40 GB Hard Drive per Core
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Fedora Core 9
  • (8) Atipa® Technologies - Opteron Partition
    • Dual Quad-Core AMD® Opteron™ Processor 2352 @ 1GHz
    • 16 GB RAM (2GB RAM per Core)
    • 73 GB Hard Drive per Core
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 5.x 64bit
  • (2) Management Nodes
    • Dual Quad-Core AMD® Opteron™ Processor 2352 @ 1.0Hz
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 73 GB Hard Drive per Core
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 5.0 with ROCKS
  • RAID-6
    • (36) Seagate 300 GB Hard Drive, 15K RPM

Workstations:

  • (2) Dell Optiplex GX620 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4HT @ 3.2GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 80 GB Hard Drive
    • 17" VGA/DVI LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (1) Dell PowerEdge SC1420
    • Intel® Dual Xeon™ @ 3.0GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • OS: FEDORA or CentOS 5.x
  • (1) Dell Optiplex 760 n-Series Desktop
    • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo @ 2.8GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • OS: FEDORA or CentOS 5.x
  • (1) Monarch Computer Systems
    • AMD®
    • Opteron™ 244 @ 1GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
  • (1) Dell Printer W5300 dtn

HiPCEP: High Performance Computing at UTEP

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CR2G

Constraint Research and Reading Group

Dr. Ceberio, CCSB Room 2.0902 Office E, F and G

  • (1) Dell Precision T3500 n-Series
    • Intel® Quad Xeon™ E5540 @ 2.53GHZ
    • 12 GB RAM
    • 500 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 6 x64

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CYBER-ShARE

Cyberinfrastructure for the Sharing of resources for Research and Education

Dr. Gates, Dr. Romero, Main Office: Classroom Building 4th Floor

Sacagawea Cluster (Located in RADC):

  • (64-node) Penguin Computing Linux Cluster
    • AMD® Opteron™ Processor @ 2.0GHz
    • 256 GB RAM Total
    • 10 TB Hard Drive Total
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 5.x with ROCKS

At Classroom Building 4th Floor

  • (22) Dell Optiplex GX740 Mini-Tower
    • AMD® Athlon64™ X2 Dual Core @ 3.0GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 250 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • Macbook Pro
    • (2) Intel® Quad Core™ Xeon CPU @ 2.8 GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • (4) 30" Apple Cinema Display
    • Mac OS X 10.5.8
  • Canon Imagerunner 1023iF
  • HP Laserjet 1320n

Visualization Cluster

  • (19) Dell Optiplex GX755 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Core™2 Duo@ 2.33GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • 256MB ATI Radeon HP 2400 Pro
    • Fedora
  • (1) Dell Optiplex GX740 Mini-Tower
    • AMD® Athlon64™X2 Dual Core@ 3.0GHZ
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 250 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro
    • Fedora
  • (20) 22" VGA/DVI LCD
  • (3) Dell Optiplex GX760 n-Series Desktop
    • Intel® Duo Core™ @ 3.0GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" VGA/DVI LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (1) Dell Optiplex GX740 Mini-Tower
    • AMD® Athlon64™ X2 Dual Core @ 3.0GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 20" VGA/DVI LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (14) Dell Optiplex GX760 n-Series Desktop
    • Intel® Core™2 Duo @ 3.0
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (1) Dell Optiplex GX620 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4 @ 3.0GHz HT
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (1) SmartBoard DVit
  • (1) HP Laserjet 4250dtn

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DAC

Discovery Analytics Lab

Dr. Hossain, CCSB Room 3.1202 Office F

  • (2) Dell Precision T3600
  • (1) Dell XPS Workstation

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HiPerSys

High Performance Systems Lab

Dr. Teller, Dr. Arunagiri, CS Room 118-119

High Performance equipment (Located in RADC):

  • (1) IBM eServer pSeries 690
    • (16) POWER4™ CPU @ 1.3 GHz
    • 32 GB RAM
    • 3 TB Hard Drive
  • (1) IBM eServer pSeries 590
    • (24) POWER5™ CPU @ 1.65 GHz
    • 32 GB RAM
    • 3 TB Hard Drive
  • (1) IBM eServer pSeries 550
    • (4) POWER5™ CPU @ 1.65 GHz
    • 32 GB RAM
    • 1 TB Hard Drive

Workstations:

  • (4) Dell Optiplex 760 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo @ 2.8GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (1) Dell Optiplex GX620 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4HT @ 3.4GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 80 Hard Drive
    • 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (1) Monarch Computer Systems
    • AMD®
    • Opteron™ 244 @ 1GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Fedora 32bit
  • (1) Dell Optiplex GX210L Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4 @ 3.0GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 17" VGA/DVI LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (1) Dell PowerEdge SC1420
    • Intel® Dual Xeon™ @ 3.0GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • OS: FEDORA or CentOS 5.x
  • (1) Dell Printer W5300 dtn

The following machines are only online when running performance simulations across difference hardware.

  • (2) Dell PowerEdge SC1420, Intel® Dual Xeon™ @ 3.0GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, 10/100/1000 NIC
  • (2) Monarch Computer Systems, AMD® Sempron™ 2600 @ 1.6GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, 10/100/1000 NIC
  • (3) Dell Optiplex GX240 Mini-Tower, Intel® Pentium™ 4 @ 2.0GHz, 512 MB RAM, 40GB Hard Drive, 10/100 NIC
  • (2) Dell Precision 670, Intel® Xeon™ @ 3.0GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160GB Hard Drive, 10/100/1000 NIC
  • (1) Gateway E-4200, Intel® PII™ @ 400MHz, 256 MB RAM, 10GB Hard Drive, 10/100 NIC
  • (1) Dell Dimension 4700, Intel® Pentium™ 4 @ 3.2GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, 10/100/1000 NIC
  • (1) Dell Dimension 4700, Intel® Celeron™ @ 2.6GHz , 512 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, 10/100/1000 NIC
  • (1) Apple® PowerMac G5™, PowerPC 970, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, 10/100/1000 NIC

HiPCEP: High Performance Computing at UTEP

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HPCS

HPCS Lab

Dr. Moore, CCSB Room 3.1202 Office H

  • (4) Dell Optiplex 390

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ILINK

iLink Lab

Dr. Villanueva, CCSB Room 3.1202 Office D

  • (5) Dell Optiplex 760 n-Series Desktop
    • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.8GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7

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ISG

Interactive Systems Group

Dr. Novick, Dr. Ward, CCSB Room 1.0404

  • (2) Dell Precision 370 n-Series
    • Intel® Pentium™ @ 3.2GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • (2) 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 5.x 32bit
  • (2) Dell Optiplex 760 n-Series
    • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo @ 3.33GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 250 GB Hard Drive
    • (2) 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 5.x 32bit
  • (1) Dell Precision G50
    • Intel® Xeon™ @ 2.4GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 136 GB Hard Drive
    • (2) 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64
  • (1) Dell Precision T3400
    • Intel® Core™2 Quad @ 2.5GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 460 GB Hard Drive
    • (2) 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64
  • (1) iMac G4 17" LCD Screen
    • PowerPC™ @ 1.6GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard
  • (1) iMac 17" LCD Screen
    • Intel® Core™2 @ 2.13GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard
  • (1) Dell Printer W5300 dn

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IASRL

Intelligent Agents and Strategic Reasoning Laboratory

Dr. Kiekintveld, CCSB 2.0902 Office C and D

Research equipment in the RADC

  • (6) Dell PowerEdge R515
    • Dual AMD® Opteron™4184 @ 2.8GHz 3M L2/6M
    • 32 GB RAM
    • 600GB 15K RPM Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 6 x64
  • (2) Dell PowerEdge R510
    • Dual Intel® Xeon™ X5660 @ 2.8GHz 12M
    • 32 GB RAM
    • 600GB 15K RPM Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 6 64
  • (1) Dell PowerEdge R515
    • Dual AMD® Opteron™ 4174HE @ 2.3GHz 3M L2/6M L3
    • 32 GB RAM
    • (3) 2TB 7.2K RPM SATA Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 6 x64

Research equipment in CCSB 2.0902 Office C and D

  • (8) Dell Latitude E6420
    • Intel® Core™ i-7-2720QM @ 2.20 6M
    • 4 GB RAM
    • nVidia® NVS 4200M 512MB DDR3
    • 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64
  • (6) Dell Optiplex 780MT
    • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8400 with VT @ 3.0 6M
    • 4 GB RAM
    • nVidia® GeForce 9300 256MB
    • 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64
  • (1) Dell Optiplex 790MT
    • Intel® Core™ i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30 GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64

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LCID

Laboratory for Computation, Information and Distribution Processing

Dr. Santos, CS Room 106

  • (6) Dell Optiplex 270
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4 3.2GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 17" VGA/DVI LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3
  • (98) Dell PowerEdge R410
    • Intel® Xeon™ 3.0GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC

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REAL

REAL Lab

Dr. Salamah, CCSB Room 3.1202 Office E

  • (3) Dell Optiplex 760 n-Series Desktop
    • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.8GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7
  • (3) Dell Optiplex 760 n-Series Desktop
    • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.8GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 6

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Robust

Robust Autonomic Systems Group

Dr. Freudenthal, Dr. Longpre, Dr. Gonzalez, CCSB Room 3.1202 Office A and B

  • (1) Dell PowerEdge 1900 Tower
    • Intel® Dual Quad-Xeon™ @ 2.0GHz
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 600 GB Hard Drive RAID5
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 5.x 64bit
  • (5) Dell Optiplex GX620 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4 @ 3.0GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 19" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Ubuntu 32bit
  • (1) Dell Optiplex GX360 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4 @ 3.0GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Ubuntu 32bit

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SSVRL

Software Specification & Verification Research Lab

Dr. Cheon, CCSB Room 3.1202 Office G

  • (1) Dell Optiplex GX620 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4 CPU @ 3.0GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64
  • (3) Dell Optiplex 760 Desktop
    • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo @ 2.8GHz
    • 4 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64

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TRACS

Theoretical Research and its Applications in Computer Science

Dr. Ceberio, Dr. Kreinovich, Dr. Longpre, CCSB Room 2.0902 E, F and G

  • (3) Dell Optiplex GX620 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium™ 4 @ 3.0GHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64

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VL2

Vision, Learning, and Language Laboratory

Dr. Fuentes, CCSB Room 2.0902 A and B

  • (5) Dell Optiplex GX620 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Pentium D™ @ 3.0GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 17" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64
  • (3) Dell Optiplex GX745 Mini-Tower
    • Intel® Core™ 2 4 @ 2.40GHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 17" VGA/DVI LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64
  • (1) Dell Precision T7400 n-Series
    • Intel® Quad Xeon™ @ 2.0GHz
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 160 GB Hard Drive
    • 22" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • Windows 7 x64
  • (1) Sun Microsystem Ultra40
    • Dual-Core AMD® Opteron™ Processor 2214 @ 1.0Hz
    • 8 GB RAM
    • 250 GB Hard Drive per Core
    • 19" DVI/VGA LCD
    • 10/100/1000 NIC
    • CentOS 5 x64

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