The Institute of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology has two computer pool rooms in P1.6.12.4 and P7.2.02.1, equipped with 22 and 24 GNU/Linux computers respectively. In addition, it is possible to connect private notebooks to a power socket in both pool rooms or to use the study corner in P7.2.02.1. There is also the Electrical Engineering learning centre in P1.7.09.3, which is supervised by the Department of Technical Didactics and offers space for self-study or exchange and collaboration with fellow students. It is also possible to connect private notebooks to a power socket there.
The pool rooms can be used by all institutes of the faculty for exercises and seminars that require the use of computers. Interactive whiteboards are available for teaching purposes. Events organised by the EIM-E institute have priority over EIM-I/M. In addition, the pool rooms are available to all students of the faculty for "free practice" during regular building opening hours.
Please make your booking requests in our booking system (only available in the university network). There you can also see directly whether the desired pool room is available at the desired times.
After checking your booking request, usually within one working day, it will either be rejected or accepted.
The following information is always required for booking enquiries:
- "Title of enquiry" field:
Event number, title of the event, type of event (lecture, tutorial etc.), lecturer - Fields "Name", "E-mail address", "Telephone number", "Field":
Contact details of the person making the booking - "Remarks" field:
as required
Please use the email address et2_raumanfrage(at)lists.upb.de for enquiries about room bookings and cancellations.
For questions about technology and equipment, please contact the central email address poolraum-admins(at)ei.upb.de
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Notes on access control for P7.2.02.1 & P1.6.12.4:
- Students should all have an access card, therefore overriding the access control system is prohibited. Information on obtaining an access card can be found under "Equipment and utilisation options - access conditions".
- A locking authorisation for the pool rooms P7.2.02.1 & P1.6.12.4 can be requested by email from the pool room officer Dr.-Ing. Carsten Balewski(carsten.balewski@upb.de). This authorisation makes it possible to permanently unlock the door via the access control system. It is important that the door is locked again after the event.
General information for P7.2.02.1 & P1.6.12.4:
- The material for the "writable" whiteboards is located in a separate plastic box in the media cabinet. The box must be completely locked back in the media cabinet afterwards. If material is missing or defective, please inform the pool room officer Dr.-Ing. Carsten Balewski(carsten.balewski@upb.de, external tel. 05251-602995, internal 2995).
- The rules of use on the page https://ei.uni-paderborn.de/institut/organisation/poolraeume/ also apply to lecturers.
- All bookers are responsible for the room, i.e. they must ensure that, among other things, the whiteboard is cleaned and the seating is left in a tidy condition.
- Please note that the number of seats in the pool rooms is limited. If additional seating is required in P7.2.02.1, it must be moved to the back or stacked there after the event.
- Whiteboard materials (cleaning materials, sponge, (spare) pens) can be found in the box in the media cabinet:
- The magnetic sponge is for dry cleaning during the event, spare cloths are in the media cupboard.
- Material for proper wet cleaning after the event can also be found in the media cupboard and can also be used.
- IMPORTANT: Damage, problems, missing material etc. must be reported promptly to the pool room officer Dr. Carsten Balewski(carsten.balewski@upb.de, external tel. 05251-602995, internal 2995). Even if the room is found in an untidy state, please let us know so that the previous user can be informed accordingly.
Additional note for P1.6.12.4:
- This room has NO additional seating!!!
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The pool rooms are currently managed by three people who can be contacted centrally at the email address
email address. You can contact this address with both technical and organisational matters. For reservation enquiries, please follow the procedure described under occupancy plan and reservations!
In order to ensure a reasonably smooth and coordinated operation, it is important that all problems and booking enquiries are only sent to this email address.
Organisational enquiries (e.g. concerning software equipment, but please do not make reservations) can be directed by telephone to the head of the pool rooms, Dr. Carsten Balewski, on 05251 / 60-2995.
If you have urgent problems with the magnetic card access system, you can contact Dr.-Ing. Balewski (office P1.6.10.1, tel. 05251 / 60-2995). Often the IRB (Tel. 05251 / 60-3317 or -3318) can also help by restarting the affected magnetic card terminals from there.
For all other urgent technical problems, the RBM (Computer Operations Mathematics, tel. 05251 / 60-3494 and -2634) will help.
Please reportless urgent problems only to the email address above or to pem(at)math.upb(dot)de!
Please inform us of any problems in any case, otherwise we will not be able to rectify them permanently.
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The following rules, which should be taken for granted, must be observed when using the pool:
- Never disconnect computers or monitors from the mains!
- Do not smoke, drink or eat in the pool room.
- All activities that could cause a nuisance to other people in or outside the room must be avoided. This also includes the distribution of pictures, texts or sounds with disturbing content or volume.
- The furnishings must be treated properly and protected from damage or theft.
- Precautions must be taken to ensure that the room or its furnishings and the software on the computers cannot be used by unauthorised persons. To this end, the password for computer access must be carefully selected and kept secret.
- The windows and doors of the pool rooms must be firmly locked when leaving and the whiteboards must be wiped clean.
- Any anomalies, damage, etc. must be reported immediately to the pool room officer.
- Attacks on other computers and users (spying on/altering data) are prohibited. Even attempts to do so are prohibited.
- Software provided on the computers in the pool may not be misused, copied or modified. Unless this is expressly authorised in individual cases. The applicable copyright regulations must be observed in all cases.
- The electrical institutions and connections must not be damaged or disturbed.
- When accessing the Internet, the "Netiquette" published there shall be deemed an integral part of these regulations.
- It is prohibited to misuse existing security gaps in the installed software or the fundamental security deficiencies of the Internet. In particular, it is forbidden to use network services under a false name.
- Network access may not be misused for advertising purposes or for criminal offences.
- Violations of these regulations will result in the withdrawal of user authorisation. Further civil or criminal prosecution of offences is hereby not excluded.
- The pool administrators may pass on user data to others for the purpose of prosecuting offences against these regulations.
Furthermore, the IMT terms of use apply.
Equipment and utilisation options
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- 21 GNU/Linux-based computer workstations in P7.2.02.1
- 23 computer workstations based on GNU/Linux in P1.6.12.4
- One GNU/Linux-based teaching computer each
- interactive whiteboards, which can be used interactively via a Windows 8 computer or as a pure presentation surface via a teacher PC or a notebook brought along.
- Learning corner with whiteboard (only P7.202.1)
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Room access is always possible via the magnetic card + PIN, which is given to the user when the login is created. However, the opening hours of the P-building should be observed:
Monday - Friday: 07:00 - 21:30
Saturday: 07:00 - 13:00
The P-building is closed on Sundays and public holidays.
Please make sure that all windows are closed before leaving the room!
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The rooms are available to all students of the EIM faculty. An IMT login and an electronic access card are required for access to the rooms. The access cards are issued by the IRB in the Guru room, stating the IMT login.
The following requirements must be met when applying for an access card:
- You must have an IMT login and be able to present a student or staff ID card.
- In the IMT user administration, the service "IT Services of Computer Science" must be activated under "Other Services - Offers of the Faculties".
- The "Network storage" service must be activated in the IMT user administration under "Other services - Centre for Information and Media Technologies (IMT)".
The terms of use for the pool rooms apply.
The IMT:Media service centre in H1.201 is responsible for issuing media cabinet keys to teaching staff. Keys are only issued during opening hours and usually require the presentation of an employee ID card.
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A GNU/Linux installation based on Debian GNU/Linux is installed on the workstations in the room. The RBM (Rechnerbetrieb Mathematik) installation is used as the basis, which contains numerous extensions and adaptations of the distribution for optimal use in the faculty. (Examples of these customisations include the integration of Matlab, Maple, Openoffice, KDE in the latest versions).
Short-term adaptations to user requirements, such as those arising from courses, are generally possible, as a separate installation server is available for the pool.
Furthermore, the workstations can be used as thin clients in conjunction with EIM-I servers to enable the pool to be used in a computer science environment for computer science courses.
The interactive whiteboards are operated via separate Windows 8 computers, which are mounted on the whiteboards and on which you can log in with your IMT login.
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There is a ProWise touchboard in both pool rooms. The board can be operated either via the ProWise interface or via the built-in PC. The input pens (four pieces, different line widths) and a wireless keyboard are located in the media cabinet, as is the remote control for the touchboard.
Alternatively, the touchboard can be controlled from the respective teacher's computer or from a notebook computer brought along.
In pool room P1.6.12.4, the external connections (HDMI and VGA) are routed directly to the table with the teacher's computer
In pool room P7.2.02.1, there is a switchbox in the media cabinet that is used to set which input is routed to the respective projector. There is also a ceiling projector here, which is also integrated into this system.
There are two buttons on the switchbox: A and B . By pressing button A several times, for example, you can select which of the four possible inputs (1 to 4) is switched to output A. There is also a remote control here. There is also a remote control here.
The following diagram explains how which inputs can be switched to which projector via the switchbox. A printout of this diagram can be found on the media cabinet in P7.2.02.1 and in the download area.
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File access to the home directory
Each IMT access is assigned a storage quota, which also contains the home directory that is used on the pool room computers. This home directory can also be accessed from outside the university. You can find out how to do this here.
Under Windows, the FileZilla programme can be helpful, under Mac OS you can access your home directory directly with the Finder (press Apple-K!) and under GNU/Linux directly from the command line with the scp command.
The required details are
- Server: sftp://afs-gate.upb.de
- User name: IMT-USERNAME
- Password: IMT-PASSWORD
Remote access to individual computers
The pool room computers can also be used remotely during operating hours (Monday - Friday: 06:00 - 22:00). This allows you to use programmes that you do not have at home. To do this, you first need a VPN connection if you are not on the campus network:
- OpenVPN instructions under Windows 10
- OpenVPN instructions under GNU/Linux
- OpenVPN instructions under MAC OS X
Remote access to the pool room computers can now be done either via the command line with ssh or with the x2go programme. Again, you need your IMT user name and password as well as the name of the computer (host) you want to access. This can be one of the following, for example:
in P1.6.12.4:
Teaching computer (GNU/Linux): bright
Touchboard computer: eim-e-wb-p16124
ampere.et.uni-paderborn.de
bright.et.uni-paderborn.de
coulomb.et.uni-paderborn.de
drude.et.uni-paderborn.de
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fleming.et.uni-paderborn.de
galvani.et.uni-paderborn.de
hall.et.uni-paderborn.de
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joule.et.uni-paderborn.de
kirchhoff.et.uni-paderborn.de
lindstroem.et.uni-paderborn.de
meissner.et.uni-paderborn.de
nyquist.et.uni-paderborn.de
oerstedt.et.uni-paderborn.de
quincke.et.uni-paderborn.de
reis.et.uni-paderborn.de
salam.et.uni-paderborn
schottky.et.uni-paderborn.de
schroedinger.et.uni-paderborn.de
swinton.et.uni-paderborn.de
taylor.et.uni-paderborn.de
ulbricht.et.uni-paderborn.de
vogt.et.uni-paderborn.de
weber.et.uni-paderborn.de
in P7.2.02.1:
Teaching computer (GNU/Linux): cer
Whiteboard computer
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promethium.et.uni-paderborn.de
protactinium.et.uni-paderborn.de
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Pool room officer ET
Dr Carsten Balewski
Room P1.3.12
Phone 05251-60 2995
E-Mail: carsten.balewski(at)upb(dot)de