The Microsoft Research Laboratory is a lab of 28 computers donated by Microsoft to Columbia University's Computer Science Department.
The machines are Pentium 4's at 3.0 GHz with 1GB of memory. They are currently running Windows XP.
The lab is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for all computer science students with a valid computer science account. If you have not used the lab before, you will have to ACTIVATE YOUR MRL ACCOUNT