The project will add 200 computing workstations. A 70-station lab in the southeast corner of the first floor of Stewart Center. Still, new labs can't keep up with student demand. We have to find other ways to meet students' needs beyond on-campus facilities. About half of the 10,000 students who live in the residence halls have computers, and they can access the Purdue computing network from their rooms.
All halls also have open labs for residents' use.
About 30 people who live within four miles of campus are participating in a trial of a system known as ADSL, or asynchronous digital subscriber loop, that involves a high-speed modem that links directly with the Purdue network. The data rate is millions of bytes per second rather than the thousands of bytes per second offered by the fastest modems now in use. All of these efforts are part of a larger vision and plan to move toward a more distributed computing environment. This will be an environment wherein students will be able to do much of their computing on their own computers in their residences and, eventually, in a wireless mode wherever they may be. In addition to the 2,000 workstations provided for use by students in all schools installed in the past eight years, each school addresses student computing needs.