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The EWS labs currently include more than 300 workstations and serve over 10,000 users. The mission of EWS is to provide a high performance and highly reliable instructional computing environment for the students and faculty of the College of Engineering. As an alternative to X-forwarding over SSH using Cygwin or Exceed as an Xclient, EWS is now providing NX access to the remlnx.ews.uiuc.edu dedicated remote Linux servers. NX provides a secure mechanism similar to VNC or RDP, allowing the client desktop to be sent over the network with encryption and compression. The compression and client side bitmap caching allow NX to perform reasonably well even over slow network connections. Welcome to Engineering WorkStation Labs! This summer, we've been very busy making improvements to EWS facilities. At 252 Everitt, the lab has been completely remodeled, with a fresh coat of paint and better lighting. The Linux workstations there are all new Dell Precision T3400 workstations with 3.16Ghz Intel Core2 Duo processors and 4GB RAM. At 1009 Mechanical Engineering Lab, we've also replaced all of the Windows workstations with the same Dell T3400's. |
