Equipment

Descriptions of Lab Equipment

Research Workstations

Three Dell Dimension 8200 Pentium 4, 2.0GHz PCs, 2GB RAM, 40GB hard disks, CDRW drive, 64MB nVidia GeForce4 AGP graphics card, 10/100Mb ethernet card, 18" flat panel monitor, multimedia sound and speakers. All are running Windows 2000 with all the same software as in the SILS lab. One Dell Optiplex GX 240 PCs (Pentium 4 running at 1.5GHz, 1GB RAM, ATI RAGE Pro AGP Graphics adapter, and 40GB hard disk, 10/100Mb Ethernet, 17" flat panel display and DVD-R drive. ^top

Eye Tracking Station

• Command station: Dell Optiplex GX240 Pentium 4 PC running at 1.5GHz, 1GB RAM, ATI RAGE Pro AGP Graphics adapter, 40GB hard disk, 10/100Mb Ethernet, 15" flat panel display, Windows XP. This machine interfaces with the eye and head tracker and contains all the software for conducting eye tracking studies
• Subject station: Dell Pentium II 400MHz PC, 256MB RAM, 9GB hard disk, CDROM drive, internal zip drive, SCSI adapter, ATI 3D Rage Pro 8MB AGP graphics card, 10/100Mb ethernet card, 19" monitor, multimedia sound and speakers. Windows 2000, SILS Lab Software Setup. These machines were donated by Intel
• ASL Model 5000 Eye Tracker Control Unit
• Flock of Birds Head tracker electronics unit, magnetic transmitter, head mounted sensor & halo
• Remote scene camera (Costas)
• Pan/Tilt optics module (Sony video camera)
• A pair of black and white video monitors for (Eye monitor and scene monitor)
• TView Gold Video Scan Converter (resolution up to 1024x768 in 32 million colors, replaces remote scene camera)

Usability Station

• Dell Pentium 4, 2.0GHz PC, 2GB RAM, 40GB hard disk, CDRW drive, 64MB nVidia GeForce4 AGP graphics card, 10/100Mb ethernet card, 19" hi-res monitor, multimedia sound and speakers. Operating system is Windows 2000 and the standards SILS lab software package is installed
• Sony SV-2000 Video Cassette Recorder
• Horita, Inc. VG-50 VITC Time Code Generator / LTC-VITC Translator
• 20" video monitor
• Focus Enhancements, Inc. TView Gold Pro PC-to_TV Video Scan Converter (resolution up to 1024x768 with 32-bit color)
• Feral Industries QS-440 Quad Split Multiple Input Display and Image Resizing Device
• 2 Sony pan/tilt/zoom remote control video cameras

Digital Video Station

• Macintosh G4 1.0GHz Workstation, running OS 10.2.6, 1GB RAM, 2x80GB internal hard disks, 2x140GB external firewire hard disks, DVD-R drive, ADVC-100 analog to digital converter
• Final Cut Pro 3.0 for Macintosh
• Media Cleaner 5.0 for Macintosh


• Dell Precision Work Station 530, 1GB RAM, 101GB 3-disk RAID array, nVidia Quadro Pro II AGP video adapter, 10/100Mb ethernet card, 19" monitor, multimedia sound and speakers, Windows 2000. 
• DV500 Mpeg encoding board
• Sony SV-2000 Video Cassette Recorder
• Sony RM-250 video editing controller
• Adobe Premiere 6.0 Software

Lab Servers

Main IDL web server (idl.ils.unc.edu): Dell Poweredge 2650 (rackmount) 2.4GHz Xeon processor, 4GB RAM, 2x73GB SCSI hard disks, dual 100Mb ethernet, dual power supplies, RedHat Linux 7.3, Tripplite 1.5KVA UPS Open Video server (video.ils.unc.edu & www.open-video.org): Dell Poweredge 2650 (rackmount) 2.4GHz Xeon processor, 2GB RAM, 2x73GB SCSI hard disks, 3x146GB SCSI hard disks (RAID configuration), dual 100Mb ethernet, dual power supplies, RedHat Linux 7.3, Tripplite 1.5KVA UPS Test and development servers: Dell Dimension 8200, Pentium 4, 2.0GHz PC, 2GB RAM, 1x40GB hard disk, 1x80GB hard disk, CDRW drive, 64MB nVidia GeForce4 AGP graphics card, 10/100Mb ethernet card, RedHat Linux 8.0 Dell Optiplex GX-1, Pentium II 400MHz PC, 768MB RAM, 1x40GB hard disk, RedHat Linux 8.0 ^top