Department Labs

The department maintains three computer labs for Computer Science majors and students taking Computer Science courses. A Vhome account is required to log in to COSC labs. All labs are installed with standard web browsers, secure shell clients, and word processing software, and provide storage space for users through network-mounted home directories.

Accounts
Our labs require a Vhome account, which is generated from first day class rolls at the start of each semester. In case of problems with a Vhome account, contact the VNET support center, at vnet@uh.edu or 713.743.1618.

PGH 376
The lab in PGH 376 consists of 35 Gateway 2000 Profile PCs running Windows XP. Various programming software packages and software development kits are installed on the machines, including Microsoft Visual Studio with MSDN SDKs, Java, and an open-source Mingw/GCC based compiler called Dev-C++.

PGH 533
The lab in PGH 533 consists of 24 Gateway Profiles PCs running Windows XP. It has a similar software load-out to 376.

PGH 563
The PGH 563 SunRay Lab consists of 16 thin client machines that provide GUI Linux Environments and Windows 2003 Terminal. The Linux imaged is CentOS 4 and general utilities, such as gcc compiler, firefox browser, OpenOffice are available. The Windows Terminal provides a similar software setup to the other Windows labs.

To access the Windows terminal server, pull up a terminal window in Linux and type:

/opt/SUNWuttsc/bin/uttsc windows

To get a full-screen window, add the -m flag:

/opt/SUNWuttsc/bin/uttsc -m windows

windows is a host alias to sunray2.cs.uh.edu. If you have another windows terminal server you would like to log into from the lab, you may substitute that.