Our facilities

School of Computer Science and Mathematics facilities

Currently, there are seven computer laboratories within the School comprising around 200 desktop PCs. Every PC has the current hardware and software needed for all modules on the degree programme and provide both Microsoft Windows and the Linux operating system. The School buildings are accessible 24 hours a day, every day *.

We have our own Computing Support team that set up and administer all the School facilities, as well as provide support for research projects and for resolving any IT problems.

All of our teaching materials (lecture slides, lab-sheets, tutorial sheets) are published on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment as the course progresses.

Facilities also include our own Makerspace with Raspberry PIs, Arduinos and dedicated PCs. We provide various web servers and a cloud computing facility for student use. We also host a CUDA GPU supercomputer Cluster for use across campus.

* with prior arrangement and collection of a key fob to gain access to the building.

24 hours access for SCM students

Lab locations

Reeves (CR10) - 70 PCs
Babbage (CR12) - 28 PCs
Knuth (CR113) - 20 PCs
Projects (CR7) – 10 PCs
Computer Science Study – 7 PCs and 1 Apple iMac
Maths Study – 14 PCs

iMac spec

27 inch screen
i5 processor
8GB RAM
512 GB hard drive
Radeon Pro 575X 4 GB Graphics

PC specification for Computing / Maths study labs

Windows 11
Lenovo ThinkCentre M90a Gen 5 Desktop
i5-14500 processor
32GB RAM
512GB SSD
Intel® UHD Graphics 770

PC specification for the Knuth lab

Windows 11
Lenovo ThinkCentre M90a Gen 5 Desktop
i5-14500 processor
32GB RAM
512GB SSD
NVIDIA GeForce MX570A 4GB

PC specification for Babbage lab

Windows 10 / Ubuntu Linux
Lenovo ThinkCentre with 24" screens
i7-8700T 2.40GHz processor
16GB RAM
512GB NVMe SSD
NVIDIA Quadro P1000 graphics card

PC specification for Reeves lab

Windows 11
Lenovo ThinkCentre M90t Gen 5 with 24" screens
13th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-13700 vPro® processor
32GB RAM
1TB NVMe SSD
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 8GB graphics card

Connectivity

USB 3.0
USB C
DVDRW

24 PCs
24 hours access for Esports society
Normal University working hours for SCM students

Spec

I5 8600K CPU processor
Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU graphics card
16GB 2400MHZ RAM
Asus Rog peripherals including headsets
Asus Rog 144hz 24 inch monitors
SSD

HTC Vive Pro (Wireless Wigig adaptor for free roam) x 2 controllers

PC Spec

I7-8700k CPU (water cooled) processor
16GB 3200MHZ RAM
Nvidia GTX 1080TI
SSD
27 inch monitor

13 PCs
Various hardware e.g. Rasberry Pi/Arduino/EMG Spiker Boxes/Quadcopters, including 2 x 3D printers: Ultimaker 2 (filament) and Formlabs Form 1+ (resin)
3D scanner

The Overclockers UK Gaming Lab

The computing suite, named after its sponsor Overclockers UK which provided 24 high-spec gaming PCs, is used by students during their lectures, and available exclusively to Keele Esports Society members in the evenings as a training facility.

The Overclockers UK Gaming Lab, based in the Colin Reeves building, was launched at a gaming event that saw the suite filled with gamers and was also streamed online. Keele Esports Society is open to students who are interested in all aspects of competitive gaming, on both the professional scene and the amateur level.

Professor Peter Andras, Head of the School of Computer Science and Mathematics, said: “We are very pleased to have opened the Overclockers Gaming Lab within the School. This is an excellent opportunity to provide students with a great gaming environment and at the same to have a high spec computer lab for teaching and research purposes as well.

High-spec gaming laboratory