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1. Major System Components

2. System Configuration and Topology

Major System Components

The following summarized the major hardware and software facilities in our laboratory:

1. Major Hardware:

• Sun Cluster computing system: including:  Sun Fire V20z Server (6 nodes), W 1100Z Workstation (Sun Server), SunRay 170 think client, Sun Cabinet (Sun Rack 1000-38);
• Sun storage system:  Sun StorEdge (TM) 3320-1.5 TB;
• High-performance PCs;
• Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP30 boards;
• Altera DE2 development boards;
• XESS development boards;

2. Major Software

• Entire Mentor Graphics HEP design and testing tool sets, including IC Nanometer Design, Design, Verification & Test, PCB Expedition and PCB PADS.
• Xilinx Design Foundation (ISE 9.2i) and Xilinx Embedded Development Kit;
• Matlab and other simulation software;
• ADK V3.1 (ASIC Design Kit)
• Redhat (RHEL) and SOLARIS (Solaris 10) OS;
• Sun N1 Grid Engine;
• Sun Ray Server Software;

System Configuration and Topology

The SAIS laboratory is located in the Burchard Building 315. The following figure illustrated the physical space usage of the lab facilities.

This above space is mainly used to host the servers for Mentor Graphics software. Stevens faculty and students can access such facilities through various network connections from their own terminals. The following figure shows system topology and configuration for the main server. All the network connections and software configurations have been setup for research and educational purpose.