Facilities
There are several computer laboratories, located on the 4th and 5th floors of Monroe, that support the Computer Science (CS) and Computer Information Systems (CIS) programs:
The Undergraduate Research Lab
Located in MO 562 houses carrels and workstations for undergraduate students working on research projects with faculty members. The equipment available to students includes UNIX and Windows servers and workstations, laptops, wireless access points, a laser printer and a scanner. A high-speed network connects the servers and workstations to each other and to the Internet. Several software packages are installed in support of Internet applications, web services, software development, graphics and database access.
High Performance Computing Lab
This lab is located in MO 564. It consists of Sun Ultra 10 SPARC workstations and Dell PC's. They will be connected to form a computer cluster running Linux. The cluster will enable students and faculty to conduct research that requires large amount of computing resources not normally available on single PC's or workstations. This lab is used by upper division majors and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Monroe Teaching Labs
Monroe 528 and 470 house labs that are used for classroom activities. It is used primarily for Freshmen and Sophomore courses and each consists of 25 PC's with all necessary software installed under WinXP.
All labs, buildings and dorms are connected through the Loyola network, which provides access to university resources and the Internet. There are several other University labs that have somewhat less powerful compters (PC and Mac) than the department labs which are also open to students most hours during weekdays and somewhat fewer hours on weekends.