What computers does your University/School/College have?

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I just started a computing degree a few weeks back and was amazed to see our room has at least 30:

i7 6700k
32gb DDR4
Nvidia Quadro m4000
Logitech cherry MX brown keyboards
LG 4k 24" display's

And this is just one room of many... The investment is just insane.

Do any of your places of learning/work have any insane systems?
 
we've got Dells everywhere, and ridiculously big TVs

walked past a room the other day with a pretend trading floor in it with reuters terminals etc...
 
At school we had 1 RML380Z (look it up)
Uni, Dec20 and PDP 11s

I would imagine my current employer has some pretty insane levels of hardware ;)
 
32gb of ram? :eek: I don't even think our servers had that much ram when I was at school and we were the "IT specialist" school :D.

32gb does seem a bit overkill for computing surely? That's pushing towards multiple VMs or video/photo work.
 
the free software is pretty cool too - want matlab on your home computer... just download if for free using the key they provide, ditto to a bunch of other stuff
 
Mynight said:
32gb of ram? :eek: I don't even think our servers had that much ram when I was at school and we were the "IT specialist" school :D.

32gb does seem a bit overkill for computing surely? That's pushing towards multiple VMs or video/photo work.
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VM setups often have 1TB of RAM these days
 
At my school we had an abacus.

Upgraded to a slide rule in grammar school.
 
Mynight said:
Surely thats for sharing VMs ie a backend and thin clients? I cant imagine even the most heavy workstation users running enough VMs to warrant that kind of memory.
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sorry, maybe I misunderstood his post, I don't get involved in the user end of stuff
 
We had Pentium D HT xp machines. Used to love raiding parts when they were decommissioned (put in the skip) dozy sods even left the HDD's in and didn't even debam the drives! Just a simple format.
Although our IT team were awful, they restored a server and everyone's user data that they had backed up, despite being riddled with viruses... Killed the network for months.
 
Unis hAve much better equipment.

Our school has old stuff. The best kit is i3, 4gb 120gb ssd. All first gen stuff

It's ok, but can be bloody slow.
 
We had Sun Workstations at our university, then could telnet around to the various other systems on the network. Was pretty awesome.
 
well I work for a group company who manages large education sites

dependant on classrooms, the computing courses have decent kit (i7, 16/32gb, quadro, 500gb ssds). You need it for the large development stuff, and similar specs for those students working with CAD design

90% of classrooms use zero terminals, although the backend platforms are very well specced (2 x 8 core xeons, 196gb ram, samsung enterprise ssds raid1, firepro gpus)

hardware is cheap these days, we just replaced a small site with dual 8 core xeons, hard disk backup system and ups for under 2k

the key is moving the financial overhead from desk to data centre

the dev systems are sourced from the dell outlet (ie, a 10k blade server for 3k)
 
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Most machines here are i3 4130T's with 4gb ram. They seem to do the job alright for students.
 
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