A number of Meeting Rooms is available in EECS, which can be used for meetings and Viva presentations.
| Room | Location | TV |
PC |
Video cables avail |
| CS 308 | CS, 3rd Floor | Yes | Yes | HDMI, |
| CS Pod | CS, 4th Floor | No | ||
| CS 401 | CS, 4th Floor | |||
| ITL Meeting Room | ITL, Middle Floor | Yes | Yes | VGA, HDMI |
| ITL Seminar Room | ITL, Top Floor | |||
| Pod ‘Lovelace’ | ITL, Ground Floor | Yes | Yes | HDMI |
| Pod ‘Turin’ | ITL, Ground Floor | Yes | Yes | HDMI |
| Eng 101a | Eng, 1st Floor | |||
| Eng 350 | Eng, 3rd Floor | Yes | HDMI |
EECS has a variety of file servers for different purposes. For example, to provide storage for individuals (home directories); for research groups’ papers and other documents (network “shares”) and administrators; for experimental data; etc. These uses are described in the service descriptions on the pages linked to below.
The requirements for these purposes vary – for example, in terms of performance, amount of storage, security/accessibility and backup policy. To help people remember what policies apply to which file services we tend to support differing policies on different servers. Accordingly this document is structured around the servers rather than the services.
There are a variety of ways to access the file servers, including NFS, SMB and SFTP.
See also
The School has upgraded and consolidated its 2 staff file servers into one new one (“tofu.eecs.qmul.ac.uk”) , it uses RAID storage and back-up to tape in different School buildings; It provides home directories to staff and research student users of the dual-boot Windows/Linux managed desktops; It also provide storage, with tape back-up, for each research group (up to 4TB each) for shared documents and code (svn, cvs) repositories. For more information about access methods to these shares please contact systems@eecs.
For security reasons, none of the staff servers’ storage is visible on the EECS student service. Instead, members of staff and research students get second home directories on student service machines. These second home directories are visible on the NFS-enabled staff networks as e.g. /homes.itl/keithc/ on a managed Linux machine.
EECS has a has several RAIDed file servers (“landin”, “orsova” and “oriana”) largely funded by research groups from grant income, with some pump-priming money from School resources. There are many terabytes of storage. It is not taped. Each research group gets just the storage that it funds. There is a considerable RAID tax necessary to achieve reasonable reliability.
For more information see the
Being a full(ish) and complete(ish) list of servers and the services hosted on them provided by the school.
| hostname | purpose |
| akita | drwachestra web server |
| almanac | wiki farm |
| apple | archived |
| aristotle | MAT web server |
| auth1 | Public LDAP server |
| bagel | repository server- code.eecs |
| baked | archived |
| bard | intranet staging server |
| beans | archived |
| bentham | multi hoost web server |
| berkeley | RIM Website |
| bert | student login server |
| boniface | development school web site |
| bouncer | Windows licence server |
| brighton | Web server |
| brunost | Hadoop node manager |
| burns | Database server |
| burrito | Webserver |
| buzz | archived |
| calvin | web projects infrastructure |
| camus | web server |
| cathay | archived |
| cheiron | “greenpages” web server |
| chivers | database server |
| conure | c4dm web server |
| diderot | FAST project web server – external dev |
| edam | database server |
| elvira | C4DM Cord Website |
| fabian | school web server testing |
| flanders | devdb |
| frank | staff login server |
| fukuyama | web server |
| garfield | Emergency Replacement for Hobbes |
| gifu | web server |
| glenstorm | Tomcat server |
| graveyard | Networks research |
| grover | CentOS 7 student login server |
| hatch | Infrastructure |
| heideggar | Web server |
| henson | Web server |
| hilarius | School web server |
| hobbes | Webprojects Webserver |
| hobo | Windows infrastructure |
| huevo | Windows infrastructure |
| hume | web server |
| itrinegy-server | student projects network emulator |
| jackdaw | web server |
| jacob | infrstructure |
| jajko | student windows DC |
| kawasaki | web server |
| kawfee | archived |
| keeper | Version control repository |
| kobe | Decommissioned 2016/11/1 |
| korra | spacewalk database server |
| kraken | Squid host for Networks research |
| lassie | infrastructure |
| lirecvm | lweb server |
| locke | web server |
| mars | NULL |
| mazdak | MMV web server |
| mill | web server |
| minotaur | replacement of theseus |
| mole | mediawiki server |
| monique | infrastructure |
| mulch | NULL |
| murdoch | Print server |
| nagano | coursenotes repository |
| nagasaki | web aplication server |
| nara | web server |
| nata | VM to replace EECS mail server |
| netemu2 | INE Appplicance: network emulator |
| newswine | Windows infrastructure. Migrated from XEN |
| nietzsche | web server |
| obu | web server |
| ockham | web server |
| oeuf | Staff Windows Infrastructure |
| oita | NULL |
| orkney | NULL |
| osaka | osaka |
| overseer | overseer |
| ovum | Infrastructure |
| peat | VM Desktop for SAM Project |
| pelagius | Web server |
| pele | web application server |
| penfold | NULL |
| penfold | Test Machine for new OS Images |
| pepper | SaltStack master |
| perky | perky |
| petra | NULL |
| pew | Blind Mole Rats NoSql Webserver |
| pewter | Secure proxy web server |
| pinky | pinky |
| plato | web server |
| plato | plato |
| ratty | ratty |
| raven | MMV host |
| rebekah | Student printing and Papercut server |
| rizpah | rizpah |
| roland | Subversion and Git Server |
| rowlf | rowlf |
| rowlf | NULL |
| rupert | print release station manager |
| samproject | archived |
| sartre | web server |
| solder-new | archived |
| spinoza | NULL |
| tacitus | Testing website |
| tardis | NULL |
| telur | Infrastructure |
| tintin | Infrastructure testing |
| toad | Drupal farm |
| tokyo | Web server |
| twistvm | twistvm |
| uggie | Infrastructure |
| vcenter | Infrastructure |
| velcro | New VMWare Replacement for Buckle |
| wellard | wellard |
| williams | web server |
| woody | infrastructure |
| yao | Web application server CIS |
| yokohama | Zeebo LAMP server |
| zorba | routing testbed |
The Drop-in Lab (previously knows as the MSc Lab is located at CS 4.02, in the Peter Landin building (Computer Science) next to the lifts. It’s an ‘Open-Access‘ Student lab, which means that all EECS students and staff can use the lab at any time (subject to the building’s opening-closing schedule).
The School provides 27 Desktops in the Lab space, all of them come with Nvidia Quadro P200 GPU cards. They are setup as EECS Student Desktops, with the same OS and same environment as the rest of the Student desktops in EECS.
| Lab | Qty | Model | CPU | RAM | GPU |
| Drop-in Lab | 27 | Dell Precision 3620 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz | 16 GB RAM | Nvidia Quadro 2000 (Pascal) |
As of May 2019, the Faculty of Science & Engineering operates the following Student Labs. The IT equipment, OS and software are managed by EECS Systems:
| Lab | Location | Floor | Workstations | Map (JPG) |
| ITL Ground | ITL | Ground level | 102 |  |
| ITL Middle | ITL | 1st Floor | 98 |  |
| ITL Top | ITL | 2nd Floor | 90 |  |
| Electonics Lab (South) | Engineering Building | 3rd Floor | 48 | 
|
| Electonics Lab (North) | EngineeringBuilding | 3rd Floor | 48 |  |
| 4.02 Lab | Computer Science 4.02 | 4th Floor | 27 |  |
| IoC Lab (Institute of Coding) |
Eng B10 | Basement | 50 |  |
| QB 202 | Queen’s Building 202 | 2nd Floor | 84 |  |
NB QB 202 will be a shared teaching space with SEF.
| Lab | Days | Hours |
| ITL (Scheduled Labs) | Mon – Fri | 09:00 – 18:00 |
| ITL Open Access |
Mon – Fri Sat – Sun |
18:00 – 23:00 08:00 – 23:00 |
| Electronics Lab | Mon – Fri | 09:00 – 17:00 |
| 4.02 Lab | TBA | TBA |
| IoC Lab | TBA | TBA |
| QB 202 | TBA | TBA |
Timetabled laboratory sessions allocate Virtual Lab spaces to a Course Module for a period of time. During the sessions, only the students enrolled on the appropriate Course Module and staff will be allowed to login.
Outside of the laboratory sessions, the following permissions will apply:
| Year | Access (out-of-hours) |
| Msc | ITL 2nd Floor , Drop-in Lab |
| 4th year | ITL {Ground, 1st Floor, 2nd Floor}, Drop-in Lab |
| 3rd year | ITL {Ground, 1st Floor, 2nd Floor} |
| 2nd year | ITL {Ground, 1st Floor} |
| 1st year | ITL {Ground, 1st Floor} |
| Lab | Qty | Model | CPU | RAM | GPU |
| ITL Ground | 102 | Dell OptiPlex 9030 AIO | 3.2GHz Intel Haswell Core i7 | 16 GB RAM | – |
| ITL Middle | 63 | Dell OptiPlex 9030 AIO | 3.2GHz Intel Haswell Core i7 | 16 GB RAM | – |
| 35 | Dell OptiPlex 7440 AIO | 3.4GHz Intel Skylake Core i7 | 16 GB RAM | – | |
| ITL Top | 20 | Dell OptiPlex 9030 AIO | 3.2GHz Intel Haswell Core i7 | 16 GB RAM | – |
| 70 | Dell Precision 3620 | 4.2GHz Intel Kaby Lake Core i7 | 16 GB RAM | Nvidia Quadro p2000 (Pascal) | |
| Electronics Lab | 96 | Dell OptiPlex 7460 AIO | 3.2GHz Intel Core i7 | 16 GB RAM | – |
| Drop-in Lab | 27 | Dell Precision 3620 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz | 16 GB RAM | Nvidia Quadro P2000 (Pascal) |
| IoC Lab | 50 | Dell Precision 3630 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8500 CPU @ 3.00GHz | 16 GB RAM | Nvidia Quadro P2000 (Pascal) |
Wi-Fi (Eduroam) is available throughout the building. Check the ITS Wi-Fi Guide how to connect to Eduroam.
See Student Printing
See also the EECS Software page and Systems FAQ (Software and Licensing).
EECS provides certain types of Desktops for Teaching and Research purposes. All Student desktops are Managed. Most of the PhD desktops and all of the Staff Desktops are also Managed. A number of PhD students can be provided with Self-Managed Desktops for their research.
“Managed Desktops” means that the desktops are pre-installed with Windows and Linux, directly connected to EECS Services (Network. Fileserver, Printers, etc), daily updated with the latest security patches, on the trusted Managed network and the software deployment is managed by the EECS Systems team.
Users do not have administrator rights, and for software/packages installation they must raise a relevant Request.
Student and staff desktops are fully managed, on the student network, with a great variety of software. Users can login using only their EECS username and password.
We also provide MacOS X (mainly for MAT students and some academics).
EECS Managed desktops are dual-boot systems running the latest versions of CentOS and Windows OS.
Managed Desktops boot from the network over PXE. During that stage, the desktop requests an IP address from a DHCP server. Then a blue PXE screen lets you choose which Operating System (Windows/Linux)you would like to boot from.
The following video shows the initial PXE-boot sequence in EECS:
During login, the users will find their home folder mounted on their Managed Desktop. In Windows it’s the H: drive and in Linux it’s the /homes/EECS_USERNAME.The home folder is exported from a central Fileserver, which means that the home directory will be available in every EECS Managed Desktop and server the users login into
All data saved in the Home Folder are also included in the EECS Backups.
Currently there are two domains in EECS, isolating Teaching and Research resources.
student.eecs.qmul.ac.uk) : This is the Student domain, all Student desktops and servers in this domain are isolated and secured from the rest of the networks and the outside world.eecs.qmul.ac.uk / research.eecs.qmul.ac.uk): This is the Staff/PhD/Research domain. All Staff/PhD Desktops and servers are isolated and protected from the rest of the networks and the outside world. All devices inside this domain are considered as ‘trusted’ since they are fully managed.Any device that needs access resources inside these domains, they must use the ‘login-servers’ or each network.
Windows
Windows 10.1 is installed in all EECS Managed desktops for Students and Staff/PhD members. Users can login using only their EECS accounts.
The managed Windows systems use cross-platform software as far as possible so that you can access your email, files etc as conveniently under Linux and MacOS as you can under Windows.
When you log into Windows for the first time, it will take a few minutes to build the Windows user’s profile, this is normal.
Linux
The latest version of CentOS is also installed in all EECS Managed Desktops, updated daily. The default desktop environment is GNOME, but KDE and Xfce can be provided after a Request.
A large variety of applications, IDEs, editors, libraries etc is installed, with additional software resources available from the /import/linux software share as well as in the form of environment modules.
Requests for additional software can be raised via Helpdesk Ticket
A number of MacOS X desktops are also available for the MAT students.
Desktops provided by the School for PhD students can be self-managed. That means that they are not pre-installed, configured, fully managed and supported by EECS Systems, but the users are fully responsible for installing their own OS, software and setup everything else required for their research. Users have administrator privileges in these devices.
Self-managed desktops are considered as less-trusted devices, and are connected to a separate network. EECS services like printing, group shares, etc are not directly accessible by these devices, but the users can connect to all EECS services they are entitled to by following the relevant guides in our Support Pages.
Any data saved into self-managed desktops are not included in EECS Backups, therefore users are responsible for backing up their research data.
Use of EECS Computers is subject to subject to the University’s IT regulations, as the source of those regulations moves around a lot we hold a copy here.