UNSW was a founding member of National ICT Australia (NICTA), which merged with CSIRO in 2015 to form Data61. CSE maintains strong ties with Data61.
The school has a number of notable alumni and former staff, including Associate Professor John Lions the author of the commentary on the UNIX operating system, a two-volume book entitled, a Source Code and Commentary on Unix Level 6) (A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System) who passed away in 1998.[5]
rUNSWift in a four-legged league game from RoboCup 2006 in Breman, Germany.rUNSWift in a Standard Platform League game from RoboCup 2010 in Singapore.Sunswift IVy During the World Solar-Car Speed Record attempt.
Students of the School are involved in a number of high-profile projects, including:
rUNSWift, the University's team in the international RoboCup Standard Platform League competition, is the most successful team in the world, with wins in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2014 and 2015, as well as coming second in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2010.
2018: Guinness World Record with car "VIolet" - Lowest Energy Consumption Driving Trans-Australia (Perth to Sydney) - Electric Car.[40]
2014: FIA Land Speed Record with car "Sunswift eVe" - Sunswift eVe breaks the record for the fastest electric car over 500 kilometres (310 mi), with an average speed of 107 kilometres per hour (66 mph). The previous record of 73 kilometres per hour (45 mph) was set in 1988.[40]
2011: Guinness World Record with car "Sunswift IVy" - Fastest Solar Powered Vehicle: 88.8 kilometres per hour (55.2 mph).[41]
2009: Winner of the Silicon Challenge Class at the Global Green Challenge with the car "Sunswift IVy".[40]
The School has computer laboratories for coursework teaching and student projects, including a number of specialist laboratories. The network supports well in excess of 1000 computers for teaching, research and administration.[56]
300+ Intel-based computers running Linux in 13 generic teaching laboratories; Microsoft Windows is available 'virtualized' in all Linux labs
20 AppleOS computers reserved in a specialized teaching laboratory
40 Linux computers in laboratories reserved for thesis students
1200+ computing sessions available in a 'virtualized' lab environment
150+ heterogeneous computers dedicated to post-grad research students
10+ discrete GPU servers for deep-learning research
40+ discrete CPU servers available in Linux clusters for research
Virtual Reality lab
laptop locker
1 multi-host vSphere production cluster with dedicated 60TB SAN
100 virtualized servers for academic staff teaching and research requirements
1 multi-host vSphere research cluster with dedicated 20TB SAN
30 virtualized servers for dedicated and ad-hoc research requirements
30+ heterogeneous computers for administration and systems support
extensive backup infrastructure, utilizing incremental and full backup to tape
The School is committed to a regular cycle of upgrades and invests heavily to maintain a state-of-the-art IT environment.
UNSW Sydney has a very high capacity, free, wireless Internet service for all students and staff.
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