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Last modified on 2011/09/12 02:07:07 by mboldin

Introduction

The purpose of this document is to instruct students, staff and faculty who use, or who plan to use, Room Lundy L-5, formerly known as the "Enterprise Computing Laboratory", or simply as "the Sun lab", at the Niagara College Welland Campus.

In the summer of 2005, the lab was upgraded to 22 Sun Microsystems SunBlade 150 workstations, each equipped with a SunPCi IIIpro coprocessor card.  The latter enables each workstation to run Microsoft Windows XP and Red Hat Linux.

As of Fall 2011, use of the lab has been extended for one more year.  In order to accomodate this, machines were upgraded to Solaris 10, using as much existing and free software as possible.

The Niagara College Enterprise Computing Laboratory, Room Lundy L-5, taken September 2005.  Click on any image in this document to view a larger one.

The lab itself has 21 student seats, with the remaining SunBlade acting as a faculty demonstration machine and also as the local lab server.  A Lexmark Optra S 1255 laser printer is connected to the network, and is shared by all workstations.  At the front is also a PC, currently running Linux.  Both the lab server and PC are connected to a projector unit, with an additional VGA cable available for connection to a notebook computer.  Each connection is selectable through a video switch.

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