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Network:        
The School's computing resources are linked together by a Gigabit Ethernet backbone over fibre based on Cisco`s Catalyst 6509 Series, 33 Gigabits Backplane. Minimum 2 GBit channel to each Lab. 100 MBit shared to student computers.
Distributions : 10/100BaseT using Cisco`s Catalyst 4000 & Cisco`s Catalyst 2948 edge switches.
Servers:
UNIX Servers
Video server Sun Enterprise 4500 Server, 6 x 400 Mhz/8MB, 4GB RAM
800GB RAID Level 5 disks		 used as video server
Student server. Sun Enterprise 3500 Server,2 x 400 Mhz/8MB, 512 RAM, Gigabit NIC sbus, A1000 144GB RAID 5  disk array, Graphics Card used as account and application server.
Email and Web server. Sun Enterprise 450 Server, 2 x 400 Mhz, 2GB RAM SIMMS,Gigabit NIC PCI,Graphics Card used as the school's email, DNS and proxy server
Web Server Sun Ultra 10 Server, 440 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB Disk school web server
Staff research server. Sun Enterprise 3000 Server used to faciltate research
by staff and Sunsite Ireland host
Postgraduate servers. 2 * Sun Enterprise Ultra 2 servers used as postgraduate research servers.
Postgraduate servers Sun Ultra 10 used as postgraduate research servers.
Gateway server Sun Sparc 20 used as internet gateway server
Oracle server Sun Enterprise 250 server, 2 x 400Mhz CPU, 512Mb RAM used as oracle database server
Novell Servers
Berlin Server Compaq ProLiant 6000 dual PIII 500MHz processor, 1GB RAM, 135 GB  RAID-5 array,Gigabit Ethernet, Dlt Backup unit File server for staff and students-storage
Sahara Server Compaq ProLiant 5000 PP200 500MHz processor, 128MB RAM, 32GB HD, Dlt Backup unit File server for staff and students.
IBM Mainframe:
IBM S/390 Mainframe 9672 model RB4 processor - about 63 MIPs, 1 GB RAM, 12 Parallel (copper) channels, 12 ESCON (fibre optic) channels, 2 x Fast Ethernet Adapters, 1 x Crypto Co-processor
Associated Software		 Runs  VM, Linux & OS390

Desktop Machines:
The following undergraduate machines are available: -

LG01 39  x   Fujitsu Siemens Celeron, 600MHz, 256MB RAM,  15" Monitor,
          CAT5E, 10 GB HD booting into Windows NT.
LG25 38  x  Dell OptiPlex Gx1 Pentium III, 450MHz, 256MB RAM, CDROM,17"           Monitor, CAT5E, 10 GB HD booting into Windows 2000 and
          RedHat Linux 9.
          Mitsubishi X200 High Beam Projector, 1200 Lumens, 2 Data           Inputs, 1 Video Input, Video Recorder also available.
LG26 38  x   Dell Optiplex GX200 machines, 733MHz, 256MB ram, 17" monitor,           CDROM, CAT5E,10 GB HD booting into Windows 2000 and
          RedHat Linux 9.
          ASK C200 Projector, 2500 Lumens.
LG27 25  x  Dell Optiplex GX200 machines, 733MHz, 256MB ram, 17" monitor,           CDROM, CAT5E,10 GB HD booting into Windows 2000 and
          RedHat Linux 9.
LG28 25  x   Dell Optiplex GX200 machines, 733MHz, 256MB ram, 17" monitor,           CDROM, CAT5E,10 GB HD booting into Windows 2000 and
          RedHat Linux 9.
L101 49  x   Dell Optiplex GX200 machines, 733MHz, 256MB ram, 17" monitor,           CDROM, CAT5E,10 GB HD booting into Windows 2000 and
          RedHat Linux 9.
          Also each has a D6 educational computer.

L114

15  x   Dell OptiPlex Gx270 Pentium IV, 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, CD-RW,
         17" Monitor, CAT5E, 40GB HD booting into Windows 2000
          and RedHat Linux 9.
25  x Dell Optiplex GX200 733MHz, 256MB RAM, 17"Monitor, CD Rom,          CAT5E, 10 GB HD.
L125 56  x  Dell OptiPlex Gx270 Pentium IV, 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, CD-RW,
         17" Monitor, CAT5E, 40GB HD booting into Windows 2000
          and RedHat Linux 9.
L128 45 x   Fujitsu Siemens 1GHz PIII, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB HD, CAT5E,
          CD-RW.
          Mitsubishi x 390 High Beam Projector 2000 Lumens.
L201 49  x   Dell Optiplex GX200 machines, 733MHz, 256MB ram, 17" monitor,           CDROM, CAT5E,10 GB HD booting into Windows 2000 and
          RedHat Linux 9.
          Also each has a D6 educational computer.
L208 65  x   Dell OptiPlex Gx1 Pentium III, 450MHz, 256MB RAM, CDROM,17"           Monitor, CAT5E, 10 GB HD booting into Windows 2000 and
          RedHat Linux 9.
          Also each  has a D6 educational computer.
L221 Mitsubishi X200 High Beam Projector, 1200 Lumens, 2 Data Inputs, 1 Video Input, Video Recorder also available
Each lab has a hp laserjet 4200tn Laser Printer