The faculty, researchers, and students within the department use a variety of computing resources, ranging from conventional PC's and scientific workstations to high-powered compute-servers and workstation clusters used as parallel computers. These systems are interconnected by an Ethernet local area network, which is in turn connected to the Internet via fiber optic technology to the campus backbone.
The educational computing facility for undergraduate majors (affectionately known as the ‘Zoo’ and the site of regular late-night pizza parties; web site: http://zoo.cs.yale.edu) is located on the third floor of the Arthur K. Watson building, which houses the department. It consists of 31 Linux workstations and 7 Windows XP graphics workstations (with dual-core, dual-socket Intel Xeon 2.33 GHz processors, 4 Gigabytes of RAM, and 19 inch flat panel monitors). This facility is used for courses in computer science and unsponsored research by majors and is available via both console and remote login 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Thus students in computer science have essentially unlimited access.