Knox College has a campus-wide Ethernet network that connects all academic buildings and student residences, and an 802.11b wireless network covering the majority of campus. These allow students to access the internet and World Wide Web, the library catalog, course software, and email from their own machines or from school-owned hardware:
- Public labs
- The Centel lab, Founders lab, and Stellyes classroom contain a mix of Macs and Windows PCs for student use, as well as laser printers and image analysis equipment. In addition to the usual office applications, they all have ssh clients and can connect to the CS department machines.
- Caterpillar Classroom
- Some CS (and Math) classes are taught in the Caterpillar Classroom, or "Cat Lab". This computer classroom has 20 Pentium IV 1.8GHz machines running Redhat Linux 9 for the students and one Pentium IV 1.8GHz machine connected to projection equipment for the instructor. All machines are equipped with 17-inch LCD displays which display true color at resolution 1280x1024. Each computer has two ethernet cards so each machine can be configured in a Beowulf multiprocessing network. When not used for classes, this room is used as a public lab.
- Departmental Labs
- The Computer Science and Math Departments share two labs that are located near the faculty offices, where students work on Honors projects, independent study projects, and class work. One contains four Windows XP machines; the other is newly renovated in 2007 and contains seven Intel Macs (all of which run Mac OS X 10.4 and dual boot to either Windows XP or Linux).
- Honors Office
- Newly renovated in 2007, this room typically contains 3-4 Windows or Linux machines in various configurations, and is used as an office for Honors students and the occasional guest Instructor.
- Crash and Burn Lab
- For upper-level classes like Operating Systems or Networks where student programs can easily get out of control and consume system and network resources, the department has a dedicated lab of nine Pentium IV 2GHz machines (with Linux, Windows, or both, depending on the term) used for upper division computer science classes.
- Department Server
- Most CS courses make use of the CS and Math departments' DellPowerEdgeTM 3250 high Performance server running Redhat Linux 9. This system has two 1.3GHz Intel Xeon TM processors, with the capacity for up to four processors. In addition to its compute power, it serves home directories to all the Linux and Mac machines listed above. Access to the server from the PCs in public labs or in students' dorm rooms is gained via SMB mounts, ssh, or the VNC software package.