ITS CoLab Details

The lab is an evolving environment, and a companion to the "living lab" environment that ITS is creating in various places on campus. The lab itself is a server that hosts a lab portal, with documentation and administrative links, as well as Wiki's and blogs related to lab activities.

The lab is available to ITS groups for work on pilots and demonstrations. Note that the lab is not a platform for development, testing, or deployment of production services.. For more information on the lab, or to utilize lab resources, contact Mike Conway.

Current Server Hardware Configuration

• 1 SUN SunFire V440 (4 1.28GHz UltraSPARC IIIi, 16GB RAM) running Solaris 9
• 1 IBM p520 Server (2-Way 1.65 GHz, 4G RAM) running AIX 5.2
• 4 IBM xSeries Xeon (2-Way Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2G RAM) running RedHat Enterprise 3.1 and SuSe Enterprise
• 1 Dell 2850 (Dual 3.6-GHz Intel Xeon/Nocona (1GB 400-MHz DDR2 SDRAM) running Windows Server 2003

Mobile Device Library

• Two Nokia 9500 Communicators (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cingular GPRS support)
• Two Palm LifeDrives (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth)
• One Palm Treo (Bluetooth, Cingular GPRS support)

Sensor Services

• Two Alien Technology 9780 RFID readers.
• One DynaSys Dual Band TI-RFID reader.

Software Configuration

• Various database servers on multiple platforms, such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
• LAMP support, and support for multiple scripting environments, such as Perl, PHP, and Python.
• Mid-tier support, including workflow, messaging middleware, mobile adaptation support, and application server support from multiple platfrorms, such as WebSphere, Oracle 10G, JBoss, Sun Java Enterprise systems, .Net, and Zope/Plone.
• Directory services such as LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory, and SSO infrastructure
• Stable CoLab services such as wikis, blogs, collaborative development tools, and SCM tools on Linux.
• Agent containers supporting projects with living labs and mobility.
• RFID middleware and other sensor edge services.