CAIA Facilities
If you are curious, here are some 'quick stats' about the facilities
available to staff and students associated with CAIA. Additional
information can be found on our Frequently Asked
Questions page.
**** Information below on this page is suffering from bit-rot, and does not properly represent the state of CAIA in 2010.
Staff workstation(s)
A mixture of.....
- Dell Optiplex 260, 2 GHz P4, 512MB
RAM, 40GB drive, 17" screen, dual-boot Windows XP and FreeBSD/KDE
- Dell Optiplex 270, 2.8 GHz P4,512MB
RAM, 80GB drive, 17" screen, dual-boot Windows XP and FreeBSD/KDE
- Dell Optiplex 280, 3 GHz P4,512MB
RAM, 80GB drive, 17" screen, dual-boot Windows XP and FreeBSD/KDE
- Compaq EVO 500, 1.6 GHz P4, 40GB
drive, 512MB RAM, 17" screen, dual-boot Windows XP and FreeBSD/KDE
- (other, better, configurations as
funds and research needs allow....)
Operating Systems
Staff desktop environment
- Each staff and post-grad student desk
has a four-channel KVM (e.g. Server Link Infinity)
- Each staff and post-grad student desk
has a 5-port consumer-grade ethernet switch
(e.g. Alloy 5 port switches)
- Additional head-less PCs as needed
for experimental work
Broadband Test Gear (BART project)
- Ten CISCO Cable Modems (UBR900
series), ten CISCO ADSL Modems (800 series)
- CISCO CMTS: UBR 7100 series
- CISCO DSLAM
Wireless Networking
- Two CISCO Aironet 1200 series
Wireless Access Points, Four CISCO Aironet Wireless Adapters (802.11a/b)
- Linksys Wireless Router, 2.4 Ghz
802.11b
Switches/Hubs
- Assorted 5-port and 8-port
100Mbit/sec consumer-grade ethernet switches for experimental testbeds.
(e.g. Alloy 5 port switches)
- CISCO Catalyst 3550 series 24 port
switch
- CISCO Catalyst 2900 series 24 port
switch
- Arrow Point Layer 4 switch, 24 port
- 3 CISCO Lightstream 1010 Series, with
various modules such as single and multimode fibre.
- 2 CISCO Catalyst 5505 Series, with
route module and 24 port line card.
Game Testing (GENIUS
Project and SITCRC SONG/ANGEL
projects)
- Nvidia Geforce 6600's (AGPx8 , 256
MB),
- 8 copies of Quake III Arena (PC), 6
copies of Half Life:Counter Strike (PC), 9 copies of Half Life 2 (PC),
6 copies of Quake IV (PC)
- 3 Microsoft XBoxes, 10 Controllers, 3
copies of Halo (Xbox), 3 copies of Halo 2 (Xbox)
- 2 x 52cm Televisions
Primary compute/NFS/Samba servers
- Three Dell
PE650 1U rack-mount servers (Dual 250GB drives, RAID 1, 2GB RAM,
2.66GHz P4s)
- Two AMD-64 3U rack-mount servers
(each with 8 x 500GB SATA-II drives, RAID-5 for 3.5Tbyte raw and
2.8TByte partitioned capacity)
Supercomputer
Other
experimental/test gear
- (borrowed as needed) Smartbits
SMB-2000 dedicated traffic generator/monitor, with four SX-7410B 10/100baseT programmable interface cards
- Various 'white box' PCs (2.4GHz and
higher, Celerons and P4s, 256MB-1GB RAM, 40GB+ drives as needed)
- Various VIA EPIA ESP-5000 and 8000
mini-ITX motherboards for experiments
- Various "Unitron" machines (800Mhz
PIII, 20GB drive, 128MB+ RAM, Intel motherboards)
General Networking
- Swinburne ITS support a
general, widely accessible 1 Gbit/sec, VLAN and VoIP capable Ethernet
around our lab and Swinburne campus.
- Our own IPv4 network space (Four /24
nets: 136.186.228/24 is for Telecomms academic staff, 136.186.229/24 is
for CAIA research staff and post-grad students, 136.186.230/24 is for RULE, 136.186.231/24 is
presently a 'darknet'.)
- 7960-series CISCO IP Phones
Secure Lab Access
- Staff using hosts outside Swinburne's
intranet can telecommute using industry-standard ssh or Swinburne's VPN solution.
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