Unisys Funds Lab for Advanced Research in Enterprise Solutions

An open house was held January 26, 2001 to introduce a new Engineering lab, The Center for Advanced Research in Enterprise Solutions. Curt Girod, a VP from Unisys, was speaker at the event. Unisys recently donated $200,000 worth of equipment to Penn Engineering to create this lab. This will bring the latest technology to the Computer Science Department. Penn is one of four Universities chosen as satellite centers of excellence by Unisys.

A primary use of the facilities will be for student projects. Unisys will also help support this Penn project by having part-time technical assistance on hand for the center.

From the Daily Pennsylvania, " What students have wanted for some time is the access to a high-performance enterprise server with the latest software packages to carry out more real world projects" a quote from Computer Science Professor Insup Lee. This lab will allow students and faculty to work on projects that would be impossible to run with their own desktops. Possible uses for this new equipment include high-volume transactions processing, high-performance databases for e-commerce systems, and file-sharing programs.