Lab Facilities Statement

(Last Updated April 2015 -- Oliver)

PI Kennedy's \textbf{O}nline \textbf{D}ata \textbf{In}teractions Lab at the University at Buffalo maintains additional resources specifically for internal use, including multiple x86 workstations and laptops and low-power development boards (Raspberry Pis and Intel Galileos) for general student and PI use, a 16-node Hadoop cluster (shared with 3 other labs), as well as four servers: (1) A 32-core AMD Opteron being used as an application server, hosting the lab's project management system, teaching support applications, and trial deployments of lab-developed software; (2) A 16-core Intel Xeon database server testbed, and (3) A 12-core Intel Xeon, 128GB RAM testbed server, and (4) A 4-node Raspberry Pi embedded database benchmarking cluster. Lab workstations and laptops are configured with OS X, Ubuntu Linux, or Windows. Servers are configured with Redhat Enterprise Linux.

Departmental Statement

https://wiki.cse.buffalo.edu/services/content/national-science-foundation-nsf-facilities-statement

Older Statements

(Last Updated Aug 2015 -- Oliver)

PI Kennedy's Online Data INteractions Lab at University at Buffalo maintains additional resources for internal use, including multiple x86 workstations, laptops, and low-power development boards (Raspberry Pis and Intel Galileos) for general student and PI use. Server infrastructure for the lab includes an application server supporting a lab project management system, teaching support applications, and trial deployments of lab-developed software, an Oracle database server testbed, a 32-core AMD Opteron and a 12-core Intel Xeon-based testbed server, as well as a 16-node Hadoop cluster shared with 3 other labs. Lab workstations and laptops are configured with OSX or Windows. Servers are configured with Redhat Enterprise Linux.

(Last Updated Jan 2015 -- Luke & Oliver)

The DB/PL lab at the University at Buffalo maintains additional resources specifically for internal use, including multiple x86 workstations and laptops for general student and PI use, 12- and 16-core Intel Xeon servers, 32- and 64-core AMD Opteron servers, as well as a 16-node Hadoop cluster shared with 3 other labs. Lab workstations and laptops are configured with OS X or Windows. Servers are configured with Redhat Enterprise Linux.

(Last Updated Jul 2014 -- Oliver)

PI Kennedy's Online Data INteractions Lab at University at Buffalo maintains additional resources for internal use, including multiple x86 workstations, laptops, and low-power development boards (Raspberry Pis and Intel Galileos) for general student and PI use. Server infrastructure for the lab includes an application server supporting a lab project management system, teaching support applications, and trial deployments of lab-developed software, an Oracle database server testbed, a 32-core Intel Xeon-based testbed server, and a 16-node Hadoop cluster shared with 3 other labs. Lab workstations and laptops are configured with OSX or Windows. Servers are configured with Redhat Enterprise Linux.

(Last Updated Jan 2014 -- Luke & Oliver)

The DB/PL lab at the University at Buffalo maintains additional resources specifically for internal use, including multiple x86 workstations and laptops for general student and PI use, a 12-core Intel Xeon server, 32- and 64-core AMD Opteron servers, as well as a 16-node Hadoop cluster shared with 3 other labs. Lab workstations and laptops are configured with OS X or Windows. Servers are configured with Redhat Enterprise Linux.