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:: Sandbox Server Farm Through the grant from the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, the Digital Sandbox received and maintains a powerful server farm for VLSI CAD applications demanding high-performance processing power. A server cluster of eight Sun Fire 280R, dual-CPU 750/900 MHz workstations with 4 GB physical memory provides with the required computing resources for memory and processor-hungry applications such as synthesis, place-and-route, Spice and Verilog simulation software. In addition, we are currently looking into adding load-balancing job scheduling software such as Sun Grid Engine or Condor to enable a truly High Throughput and Performance Computing environment. :: Computer Labs > Carnegie Mellon, ECE Undergraduate Cluster
Carnegie Mellon undergraduate ECE computer cluster has been recently upgraded and is now equipped with
32 SunBlade 100 Solaris workstations. These workstations are fully configured to run all VLSI CAD software available at Carnegie
Mellon and installed on Andre File System(AFS). The cluster is primarily used by the undergraduate and graduate students taking
classes in digital, analog, mixed-signal design, CAD and computer architecture.
> University of Pittsburgh, CAD/CASE Classroom Laboratory
This new state-of-the-art laboratory is used to support the teaching
and research program in computer, electrical, and mechanical
engineering. Specifically, the laboratory combines a lecture
facility together with a combination of 48 high performance Windows and
Sun Solaris workstations. This facility supports the many System-on-a-Chip and
Mixed Technology Micro-systems research projects currently in process
in the school by providing the platform for the higher performance
CAD software tools. > Penn State :: Other facilities + Concurrent Version Control (CVS)
For source code management, version control and centralized repository access, the Digital Sandbox maintains
a CVS repository that is used by the students at all three universities. This repository is stored on Carnegie Mellon
networked file system, the Andrew File System or AFS. Through CVS's secure shell protocol (SSH), the students can
securely exchange, distribute and share their design files.
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