The Allen School’s instructional lab facilities have been equipped largely through the generous support of UW Student Technology Fee and the Intel Corporation. We are grateful for their continuing support of the Allen School’s educational missions and computing infrastructure.
Student Technology Fee
In 2019, the Student Technology Fee Committee awarded the Digital Animation Program funds to purchase eight workstations and displays to promote VR Animation projects.
In 2018, the Student Technology Fee Committee awarded CSE funds to purchase fifty AIO workstations and fifty 27″ 4K displays to outfit new Gates Center Undergraduate facilities.
In 2017, the Student Technology Fee Committee awarded CSE funds to purchase GPU cards and Solid State Drives to refurbish and upgrade six GPU Workstations.
In 2016, the Student Technology Fee Committee awarded CSE funds to purchase sixty new widescreen computer display monitors, and five mobile/cellular device charging kiosks.
In 2014, the Student Technology Fee Committee kindly granted CSE with the funds to purchase twenty-five new AIO workstations, forty widescreen LCD monitors and seven ultra-high-def collaboration monitors.
In 2012, the Student Technology Fee Committee graciously awarded CSE with the funds to purchase sixty-five new workstations and fifty-five widescreen LCD monitors. With this equipment we were able to upgrade more than two-thirds of the general instructional computing lab hardware.
Intel Corporation
In 2016, we received four Xeon E5-2699-V3 processors from Intel, that were used to build two addtional centralized research computing systems.
In 2015, we received twelve Xeon E7-4850-V2 processors from Intel, that were used to build four quad-processor 96C systems, towards emboldening our centralized research computing cluster.
In 2012, we received ten X5650 CPUs from Intel, that were used to upgrade an existing student-funded server cluster. This upgrade increased the cluster’s core count by 50%. Students use this cluster to remotely access a wide variety of development software, and the upgrade enables us to provide more capacity (more VMs per node) or simply allot more cores to other specific student project machines that cycle from this cluster, on demand. Hosted student projects vary in discipline, and include experimental work in Artificial Intelligence, Database Management, and Operating System Internals.
In 2011, Intel provided CSE with forty Dell workstations equipped with 2ndgeneration Intel i5 processors. These desktops and CPUs replaced aging lab workstations in the Baxter Computer Engineering Laboratory. These machines are used to teach our core undergraduate computer engineering curriculum and are a real shot in the arm to student productivity in the lab.In 2007, Intel donated fifteen Dell workstations and monitors, which were put to use in our undergraduate Graphics Instructional Laboratory.