Infrastructure:
Equipment valued at approximately two million dollars:
Featuring:
-96 processor Ubuntu based cluster (in development)
-200 processor Windows based cluster (in development)
-36 processor Fedora based cluster
-30 processor Solaris based cluster
-8 processor OpenSolaris based cluster (in development)
-35 Sun workstations
-Large scale Cisco and Force10 switches supporting ATM, DSL and -Ethernet technologies.
Major Research Themes:
--Security: Attack probability analysis, firewall design and implementation, deploying encryption techniques.
--Network Performance Analysis: Defining the packet inter-arrival rate.
--Distributed Processing: Describing the packet profile among internetworked processors. Parallel processing techniques used to speed up software implementations
--E-Commerce: Site design, implementation and security.
--Distibuted Database Hard disk pooling techniques used to maximize storage space and data redundancy.
Classes currently using BCRL resources:
-BCIS 250 Java: Sun servers. (Application Program Development I)
-BCIS 340 Management Information Systems.
-BCIS 352 Unix Operating Systems and Principles.
-BCIS 353 Client Server Architecture.
-BCIS 359 Practicum in BCIS.
-BCIS 451 Telecommunications: Linux servers and data communication Equipment.
-BCIS 453 Client/Server: Linux and Sun servers.
-BCIS 459 Special Problems in Unix: Linux servers. (Topics in Information Systems)
-BCIS 471 Policy Development and Security Issues in Information Systems.
-BCIS 495 Independant Study.