Koshland INSC H110 and H204
Availability/Access to lab computers
These labs are available to students as long as there is not class or lab scheduled,. Please check the weekly schedule to confirm. The H110 lab is staffed in the evenings Sunday through Thursday, 7 - 9 pm. It is also possible to work over the network: following the remote connection instructions.
In case of trouble in/with the lab:
Consult our Knowledge Base first; if you cannot find the answer you are looking for, please email us at to h110 [at] cs.haverford.edu.
Access to files for assignments
Communicate with your instructors about how to access the files for each course. Once you have that information, the CS Student Knowledge Base will help you manage your work.
Software
The following software is available for course work. If you are trying to set up your computer to work in the same way, this can serve as a starting point:
- Ubuntu Linux 22.04
- Eclipse IDE
- JetBrains IntelliJ, CLion, and PyCharm, remotely accessible through JetBrains Gateway
- VisualStudio Code
- Python
- Git
- HERA (Haverford Educational Resource Architecture)
- MPI (Message Passing Interface) for parallel scientific computation
- OpenMP for shared-memory computing
- WebMapReduce for data intensive scalable computing
- CUDA for GPU-based computing
Note that all of the above software is freely available (just follow the links), so you can install and use these programs on your own computer.
If you want to work on your labs on another computer, you'll also have to get any Haverford-specific files, such as the logic.py file for stating preconditions and postconditions, or equivalent libraries for running C++ programs (request via email or copy the file Haverford-course-support.tgz from /home/courses/).
Hardware
- H110: 12 Dell Precision Towers with 80 GB hard disks, up to 16 cores, and up to 16 GB of memory
- H204: 20 Lenovo P3 ThinkStations with 500 GB hard disks, 24 cores, and 32 GB of memory; 20 Dell Alienware Area-51 Ultra 7 32GB 2TB Nvidia RTX 5090 32GB
- Teaching Console: Integrated AV system with projector and in-room speakers for computer, laptop, associated media
- Tri-College card access (24/7 access for eligible students/faculty)