Unix Based Graphics Work Station Laboratory for Computer Science Students

该项目是开发一个图形工作站实验室。这些设备将用于四个初级和高级计算机科学课程，以演示软件工程和计算机图形学的现代方法。学生将通过使用最先进的仪器来实施说明这些领域的理论结果的软件项目，从而获得这些方法的专业知识。该项目侧重于将图形工具用作软件设计和分析的可视化辅助工具，并将这些工具用于图形软件本身的开发。该设备包括一台彩色显示器和四台供学生实验室使用的工作站，以及一台供教师实验室使用的文件服务器和一台工作站。服务器是一个带有磁盘驱动器的高速微处理器，为工作站提供磁盘空间和额外的计算能力。八台现有的个人电脑将连接到服务器；四台将放置在学生实验室，四台放置在教职员工办公室。这两个实验室将设在一个新改建的设施中。项目实施为期两年，配备充足的人员进行设备安装和课程准备。

This Project is to develop a graphics workstation laboratory. The equipment will be used in a sequence of four junior and senior level computer science courses to demonstrate modern methods in software engineering and computer graphics. Students will acquire expertise in such methods by using state-of-the-art instrumentation to implement software projects which illustrate theoretical results in those fields. The project focuses on the use of graphics tools as visual aids for the design and analysis of software and on the use of those tools in the development of graphics software itself. The equipment includes a color monitor and four workstations for a student laboratory and a file server and one workstation for a faculty laboratory. The server, a high-speed microprocessor with a disk drive, provides disk space and additional computing power to the workstations. Eight existing PCs would be connected to the server; four would be placed in the student laboratory and four in faculty offices. Both laboratories will be housed in a newly remodeled facility. Project implementation span a 2-year period with ample personnel available for equipment installation and course preparation.