Computing Science and Applied Computing resources

The Faculty's impressive range of resources for Computing Science and Applied Computing are primarily based in the Octagon and are supplemented by teaching and open access resources provided by Information Services. In total there are 1000 networked Computers within the Octagon used for teaching, research, staff and student work.  

Concourse PCs are available to students when the Octagon is open and they are not being used for teaching. There are two IS technicians on the support desk.  There are quiet study areas with PCs and study areas with PCs for collaborative work plus study areas with laptop ports and a WiFi system. 

Students can work independently in faculty labs when they are open and not being used for teaching.  There is also an open access  Lab of Labs available to faculty students in the Nelson library which is open 24/7.  Computing facilities in use.

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• Forensic Computing graduates have first class experience
• Games Programming student lands dream job
• Computing Graduate Kunal Verma beats the odds
• Human Adaptive Mechatronics workshop
• Prize Winning Canditv explained to BCS by Faculty graduate
• FCET’s Ian Sunley and Professor Lorna Uden in European Placements collaboration
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• Computer expert takes to the skies in charity jump
• Digital Dr
• Computing Faculty praised in its five year review
• Enigma talk at Staffs University
• Europrix
• Prize winning students in Computing, Engineering and Technology

The 48 PCs in the two CISCO laboratories serve as hosts on the test networks  

In K104 the devices in the test network include:

• 24 PCs 
• 3 x 19 inch network racks containing:
• • 18 switches
  • 24 routers
  • 1 Adtran
  • 1 Catalyst 4600

• 3 CISCO PIX 515 Firewalls
• 1 CISCO 2821 CME router
• 4 Adtran ATLAS 550 WAN Emulators
• 4 CISCO 7900 IP phones18 Catalyst 2950

Software includes:              

• Aironet Desktop utility 1.2.0.4 for PCs with WiFi  
• Confregna
• E-labs
• IP Communicator                                           
• Packet Tracer 4.1
• tFTP
• VPN client
• Adobe Acrobat Reader  8.1
• Apache 2.0.55
• Cain v2.5
• Hyperterminal Private Edition v6.3
• Ixia Qcheck
• Kiwi Syslog daemon 8.2.18
• puTTY
• Solarwinds 2003 Standard Edition 5.3.23
• Teraterm Pro 2.3
• tftp daemon
• Wireshark 0.99a

In K105 the devices in the test network include:

• 20 PCs 
• 2 x 19 inch network racks
• 15 switches
• 10 routers
• 1 Adtran
• 12 IPphones

Software includes:

• Aironet Desktop utility 1.2.0.4* for PCs with WiFi 
• Confregna
• E-labs
• IP Communicator                                           
• Packet Tracer 4.1
• tFTP
• VPN client
• Adobe Acrobat Reader  8.1
• Apache 2.0.55
• Cain v2.5
• Hyperterminal Private Edition v6.3
• Ixia Qcheck
• Kiwi Syslog daemon 8.2.18
• puTTY
• Solarwinds 2003 Standard Edition 5.3.23
• Teraterm Pro 2.3
• tftp daemon
• Wireshark 0.99a 
  

In K106 there are:

• 20 pcs
• 17 playstation 2 (installed with Unix for games programming)
• 3 xBox 360
• 20 force feedback joysticks
• 20 USB Microsoft games controllers

Software includes:

Windows XP Partition 

• Jade
• 3D Studio Max
• 3D Studio Max Textporter
• Adobe After Effects v5.5
• Adobe Encore v1
• Adobe Illustrator v10
• Adobe Photoshop v7
• Adobe Premier v6.5
• Cosmo Player
• Direct X SDK
• Ericson Toolkit
• Eclipse and JOGL  
• FTP
• Hugs 98
• Java SDK
• Logitech Joystick Drivers
• Macromedia Authorware v7
• Macromedia Director 10.1
• Macromedia Studio MX 2004
• Macromedia Shockwave
• Maple 11.01
• Maya Complete v6 + plugins  
• MS XNA Game Studio
• NetBeans Plus Mobility Pack
• Nokia and Ericsson mobile toolkits
• Paint Shop Pro 8
• PGP
• QVT Terminal
• RealPlayer
• Real Producer Basic 10
• Select SSADM
• SPSS 15
• Visual C# Express
• Visual Studio .NET 2008
• VR Worx
• Webx Player + TSCC codec
• Windows Media Encoder
• Windows Mobile 6 SDK 
• XML Spy
• Xtragent
• Glassfish
• Wacomm Drivers
• Cisco Packet Tracer

Red Hat Linux Partition 

In K103 there are: 

20 x  PCs  new September 2009

Software includes:     

• Jade
• Acrobat Reader v8
• Ahead Nero 6
• AI Demos
• Cosmo Player
• Esteem
• Flash and Shockwave Plugins
• FTP
• Hugin
• Hugs 98
• J2ME
• Java SDK
• Kappa 
• MS XNA Game Studio
• NetBeans plus mobility pack
• Open GL
• Opnet
• QVT Terminal
• RealPlayer
• SAS
• Skype
• SWI Prolog
• Visual C# Express
• Visual Studio 2008
• Weka3
• Windows Mobile 6 SDK 
• Wordnet
• XML Spy

SOM Demo

In K113 there are:

• 20 x PCs     
• Fingerprint reader
• Hand Geometry reader
• Iris scanner
• 3 D face scanner

Software includes:

XP Partition

• Dev C++ 4.9.9.2
• EnCase 6
• EnCase addons (movies for tutorials, etc)
• Gnu PGP v0.7.6
• IrFanView 3.97
• WinHex 14.2 SR-3

RedHat Linux Partition

In K110 there are 20 pcs with software specific to mobile computing

3DS Max

Jade

Adobe Scalable Vector Graphics

Active Sync 4.5

Cosmo Player

FTP

J2EE

J2ME

Java SDK

MS XNA Game Studio
Netbeans & Mobility Pack

Opnet

QVT Terminal

Select SSADM

Skype

Visual C# Express

Visual Studio 2008

XML Spy

Nokia and Ericsson mobile toolkits

Macromedia Flash Compact

Latest Sun Java Wireless Toolkit (CLDC Database interactivity)

Handset emulators

Folder of custom software (leap)

Maya  + Extension 2

SKYPE

Visual Studio Team Suite Edition 2008

SPSS 17

Android SDK

Blender 3D Modelling Tool (on Windows and Linux)

Bluetooth adapter software

Cisco Packet tracer

Data Glove, Head mounted display and other VR equipment drivers

Database interactivity software

DirectX SDK

Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (Windows)

Fear Development Kit

Fireworks

Folder of custom software (leap)

Google Earth

Hugin

Logitech Joystick Drivers

Macromedia Flash Compact

MatLab with Neural Network toolbox

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0

NetBeans and UML plugin

Notepad

OpenGL with GLUT toolkit

Opnet

Oracle Forms and Developer

Photoshop

Smartcard reader SDK (ACR38)

SOM Demo

Sun Java ME Platform SDK 3.0

Sun Java SDK

Sun Java Toolkit 1.0 for CDC

Sun Java Wireless Toolkit  2.5.2 for CLDC

SWI Prolog (needs updating)

Visual Studio Team Suite Edition 2008

Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK

Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK Refresh

Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK Refresh

Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Developer Toolkit

Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Developer Toolkit

XBox 360 Controller for Windows Driver

Split Linux partition.

Blender 3D Modelling Tool (on Windows and Linux)

Eclipse IDE (on Linux)

Linux Redhat Operating System

NetBeans  (on Linux)

OpenGL Performer (on Linux)

OpenGL with GLUT toolkit

In K108 there are:

• 3 PCs for HCI use
• 1 AlienWare Games PC
• 4 X-Boxs
• 2 Playstation 2
• 1 ATI game cube

plus other games input devices and varius old games consoles for demo purposes

K129 is a new 40 high specification PC  Web and Multi Media lab 

• Adobe AIR
• Adobe Director 11
• Adobe Flash Media Server Developer Edition 
• Adobe Master Collection CS3  
• Apple Quicktime 7 Pro
• Autodesk 3ds Max 2009  
• Autodesk Cleaner XL
• Autodesk Combustion 2008
• Autodesk Motionbuilder 7.5 Pro  
• Helix Server
• Maya latest version + plugins
• Microsoft Expression Studio 2
• Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1  
• Paint shop pro latest version  
• Real Producer Plus  
• VR Worx 2.6  
• XNA support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

 Real Time Systems

32 PCs running Labview which allows simulation of a number of environments including a telephone switchboard with conversations between a number of telephones (Up to 6) and a garage with petrol pumps and kiosk operations.  We now have Quad Core Computers in there allowing multi core programming in Lab view.

We now have Mind Storm Robotshere in D10 and a number of automatable sorters and mini production lines that can be configured in various ways and simulations of traffic lights, ATMs and washing machines – all of which use real time systems in the real world, and a multi-application board.   This setup is used for computing modules such as Safety Critical and Embedded - a module popular with at least one local employer who has recruited graduates from it for the last three years demonstrating the relevance of our teaching.

New lab with:

23 High spec PC workstations for use with high quality multimedia capability. 

Software includes

• Adobe AIR
• Adobe Director 11
• Adobe Flash Media Server Developer Edition 
• Adobe Master Collection CS3  
• Apple Quicktime 7 Pro
• Autodesk 3ds Max 2009  
• Autodesk Cleaner XL
• Autodesk Combustion 2008
• Autodesk Motionbuilder 7.5 Pro  
• Helix Server
• Maya latest version + plugins
• Microsoft Expression Studio 2
• Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1  
• Paint shop pro latest version  
• Real Producer Plus  
• VR Worx 2.6  
• XNA support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008