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College of Computing Building

The College of Computing's original building houses administrative offices for the College, classrooms and computer labs, and the Robotics & Intelligent Machines (RIM) Center at Georgia Tech, as well as meeting space for undergraduate and graduate student organizations. The building's basement floor also houses several laboratories for the School of Chemistry.

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College of Computing BuildingThe College of Computing Building (CCB) houses administrative offices for the College, instructional classrooms and computer labs, and the Robotics & Intelligent Machines (RIM) Center at Georgia Tech, as well as meeting space for undergraduate and graduate student organizations. CCB is the instructional center for the College, housing 7 classrooms and 3 instructional labs/clusters with over 45 seats to service CS courses that require special software or capabilities not readily available in the general clusters provided by OIT. Included in our Instructional lab facilities is an innovative Thin-Client Lab that is proving the viability of extending multiple operating systems via appliance computing and changing the way we remotely access instructional facilities via the use of web browser based desktop computing. All CoC instructional labs are made available to the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the College as a general resource. A spacious Commons Area provides ample seating and computer networking which fosters both formal and informal learning opportunities and collaboration.

  • Baird Lab (a 25-seat cluster of open-use, Intel Core2duo workstations running Windows and Linux, with a robust software development environment)
  • Mac Digital Media and Gaming Lab (a 20-seat cluster of dual-core Apple Mac Pro workstations with 23" monitors running Mac OS X and Windows)
  • Network Instruction Lab (supporting networking course assignments)
  • Information Security Instruction Lab (Student teams are provided access to the latest information security hardware and software in an isolated environment allowing for study, analysis, and simulation of current threats without risk to production facilities)
  • Jazz Instructional HPC Cluster (a 4-node IBM System x3755 server cluster, 32 cores, and 80TB of formatted file system storage, Hadoop and HDFS)
  • Hogwarts Instructional HPC Cluster (a 6-node Dell PowerEdge R710 server cluster, based on the Intel Nehalem processor, 48 cores and roughly 12TB of formatted file system storage, Torque and Maui scheduling)
  • Factor Instructional HPC Cluster (a 9-node Dell PowerEdge R610 server cluster, based on the Intel Nehalem processor, 72 cores. 2x Dell PowerEdge R710 file servers with 7TB of storage.)
  • Academic Remote Access (provides browser-based, virtualized instructional desktops to remote students for access to specialized software environments).

The Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM) is located in the College of Computing Building and houses a variety of research labs in a multi-facility collection of workplaces. In addition, several RIM affiliated laboratories are operated by non-CoC RIM members in the College of Architecture, Schools of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, department of Biomedical Engineering and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. A partial list of specialized RIM and robotics equipment includes:

  • Vehicles:
    • 1 Porsche Cayenne outfitted for DARPA Grand Challenge
      competition.
    • 1 Actuated AM General Hummer (w/DGPS)
  • Robots:
    • Several Kuka robotic arms
    • A Schunk robotic arm (LWA3) with dexterous hand (SDH2).
    • Golem Krang: a mobile manipulator designed and built by the Humanoid Robotics Lab at RIM, featuring a Schunk robotic arm mounted on a custom Segway Human Transporter.
    • Simon: a face-to-face, robotic research platform featuring an upper-torso humanoid social robot with two 7-DOF arms, two 4-DOF hands, and a socially expressive head and neck, including two 2-DOF ears with full RGB spectrum LEDs.
    • A Segway RMP200 Research Mobility Platform.
    • A Mobile Robotics PeopleBot.
    • A PR2 Willow Garage robot.
    • Rovio WowWee mobile webcam.
    • 18 Sony AIBO legged robots
    • 2 iRobot ATRV minis, 1 IS Robotics Pebbles III robots
    • 4 Pioneer 2-DXE, 3 Pioneer AT robots
    • 1 Evolution Scorpion, 1 Evolution ER1, 1 Segway, 1 Denning DRV-I robot
    • 3 RWI ATRV-Jr, 5 ActivMedia Amigobots, 1 Nomad 200, 5 Nomad 150, 1 Hermes II Hexipod, 3 Blizzard robots
    • several SICK scanners, various lasers, vision/motion systems,
      cameras, and associated equipment.
  • Fabrication Shop: a lab with band saws, drill presses, lathes, presses, grinders, etc. for the fabrication of robotic components.
  • Electronics Shop: a lab with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, programmable power supplies, soldering equipment, etc.
  • Wilks Cluster: a 10-node Dell PowerEdge 1855 Linux cluster with dual Pentium4 Xeon EMT64 processors
  • A Segway Human Transporter
  • A Poster Printer (HP DesignJet 800)