Each new student is assigned a CS account which expires one year after graduation. The login names are posted in the lab and passwords are initially set to the student's UIN.

Grad students are given a space quota of 80MB and print quota of 600 pages.

Undergrad students are given a space quota of 70MB and print quota of 500 pages.

Accounts can be accessed by logging on to the lab workstations or remote servers, allowing students the flexibility to complete their course work from the lab, home or work.

The instructional laboratory is located on the 2 nd floor of SEL (rooms 2250 and 2260). Lab hours are from 9am 9pm Monday through Friday and 10am to 5pm on saturdays.. In case of problems or error, please contact the lab consultant on duty or email consult@cs.uic.edu.

The facility consists of the following machines:

Remote servers: bert.cs.uic.edu and ernie.cs.uic.edu

* 72 Red Hat Linux workstations

* 2 HP printers (ICL1 and ICL2)

The following software is available on the Red Hat Linux workstations:

* Standard Linux utilities

* GNOME and KDE desktop environments

* GNU distribution software: gcc, emacs, gnuplot, etc.

* Java 2 SDK development environment

* Oracle 10 client

* MATLAB 2006a numerical computing and visualization environment

* Tex, Latex and related text processing utilities

* Spim MIPS simulator