Prof Esko Ukkonen, chairman (1.1.1999-31.7.1999), (deputy member Prof Matti Mäkelä), Prof Timo Alanko (1.8.-31.12.1999, chairman 1.8.-31.12.1999), Prof Hannu Erkiö (Prof Seppo Sippu), Prof Kimmo Raatikainen (Prof Jukka Paakki), Laboratory Engineer Lea Kutvonen (Amanuensis Tiina Niklander), Lecturer Harri Laine (Assistant Juha Gustafsson), Senior Assistant Greger Lindén (Research Assistant Mikko Mäkelä), Student Aleksi Niemelä (Student Jani Leinonen), Student Anni Rytkönen (Student Kasper Valtakari 1.1.1999-29.3.1999, Toni Kräkin 30.3.1999-31.12.1999), Student Asko Saura (Student Jonne Soininen), Amanuensis Teija Kujala, secretary (Amanuensis Reijo Sivén).
The library now holds about 52,000 volumes of literature, making it the largest computer science library in Finland. The annual cumulative is about 1,200 monographic titles and 300 journal subscriptions. Course books are available for reading on the premises. Admission to the premises is free and the collections are freely available to all visitors. Home loans, however, are normally granted only to university personnel and advanced students of the Department.
To help users search for and locate the required literature, the library maintains a web database of its holdings. The database includes all journal titles and about 41,000 monographic titles, classified according to the CR Classification System of the ACM. The library is also responsible for the distribution of departmental reports, including PhD theses. Paper copies may be requested from the library, and electronic versions are accessible through the Department's FTP server.
The library has two full-time employees, one librarian and one secretary.
The Department is dedicated to providing a wide range of advanced high-quality computing facilities for use by computer science faculty and students. The facilities are operated by a technical staff who are not only responsible for the installation and maintenance of the systems, but who also assist faculty and students in the use and development of software systems for research projects.
Our workstation network consists of about 400 PCs (mostly Pentium II/III, nearly half of them with flat TFT monitors) running Linux. Windows (98, NT, or 2000) can be used as an alternative to Linux. More than 50 of the workstations are mobile laptops which can join and leave the network dynamically.
The general computing facilities include a farm of servers: general purpose computers, file servers and other functionally dedicated servers (mail, WWW, FTP etc.), and servers for different user groups. Linux is used almost entirely as the operating system for the servers. The centralised file servers utilise RAID technology and currently offer over 0.4 Tbytes storage space. Together these systems support a wide variety of services, languages and software tools including electronic mail and news, graphics and visualisation tools, several typesetting systems, and relational database systems. Special attention has been given to security and reliability.
Networking is based almost entirely on a switched 100 Mbit/s Ethernet with an optical backbone. The mobile laptops can also utilise a Departmental IEEE 802.11 type radio network which currently has 12 base stations. In the the Linux (and UNIX) environment, NFS is used to share common resources. On the Windows side Samba (a Linux hosted LAN Manager Server) is utilised. The workstations are used as tools for software development, in research and on all levels of teaching.
The network of the Department is connected through a firewall to the university backbone network, giving access to general purpose UNIX computers at the University IT Department as well as to the FUNET wide area network that links Finnish universities and research establishments. The IT Department also offers a large modem and ISDN pool for remote access.
In addition, the Department has access to a number of supercomputing facilities at the Center for Scientific Computing.
The national FUNET network is further connected to the Nordic University Network, Nordunet, with a 310 Mbit/s connection. The Nordunet has a 465 Mbit/s connection capacity to the United States as well as many high-capacity connections to the European network infrastructure.