Prof. Laverell, Josh Holtrop (BCS, 2007) & Phil Davis (BCS, 2006) monitor EmuLab performance in the hardware lab.

We maintain the following class-lab facilities.

We also maintain a number of specialized research labs and virtual facilities.

Research Labs

• CSX Lab – SB 319 – This lab is maintained by Abstraction for their software and hardware projects.

• Supercomputing Lab – SB 381 – This lab is the home of the department’s Beowolf clusters: Ohm and Microwulf.

• CCEL – SB 383 – This lab is the “brick and mortar division” of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

Virtual Facilities

• mirror.calvin.edu mirrors various software, including various flavors of Linux, CPAN, Eclipse, Mozilla browsers and mail clients, etc.

• Microsoft Developers Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA) allows students enrolled in computer science or engineering courses to download and install any operating system, server, or development environment that Microsoft has to offer.