Facilities - Computing

The G&G department has excellent computer facilities for its students. Students have 24-hr access to 25 PC workstations, 2 MAC workstations, 1 Sun Ultra Sparc unix workstation and 1 Red-Hat Linux workstation in 2 computer labs. All are networked and have open access to the internet and a number of free-use peripherals such as postscript laser printers and digital scanners.

Color printing and color slidemaking are available to graduate students through their advisor. Overall, the undergraduate student to computer ratio in our department stands between 3 and 4, which makes access to computers a non-issue for our students. Nearly all graduate students are provided computers through their supporting research grants and contracts. Students also have unlimited internet access and generous limits on hard disk space for network file storage (e.g., for email and web documents).

In addition to all of the above, our school, SOEST, has between its researchers another 100 or so work stations of various types in various laboratories, including a Cray mini super computer and a number of silicon graphics work stations. These are available to students through arrangement with the director(s) of the individual labs.