CS Lab Upgraded
dwaldron February 20th, 2009
During winter break, the Office of Information Technology completed an upgrade of the Computer Science Lab located in Taylor Hall. This lab is now home to 17 Mac Pro towers. These Apple computers are configured to run both MacOS and Windows XP. Wooster’s Computer Science lab is among the first in Ohio to configure Apple hardware in this way. In addition to the lab computers, an Apple server was installed in the lab to act as a file server, DHCP server and web server for the CS Department to use in their classes.
Regarding the upgraded lab, Associate Professor of Computer Science Denise Byrnes writes:
“This year’s computer science lab upgrade was completed in an efficient and timely manner due to the efforts of the OIT staff, with special thanks going to Mary Schantz and Michael Benchoff. The staff took the department’s wish list of requirements, determined the most cost effective solution and negotiated with Apple to purchase the lab computers.
The new lab technology is an exciting addition for the department and our students.The Apple server supports more dynamic lecture content with immediate sharing of computer files and computer window contents. The lab computers run three different operating systems, Unix, Mac OS X Leopard, and Windows XP. The lab now supports large scale distributed computing with Apples’s XGRID software.
Associate Professor of Computer Science Simon Gray adds, “…the lab is beautiful…[It] should be an ideal space for a studio approach to teaching CS.”