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Computer Lab

The CSCS computer lab is located in 120 West Hall. This a semi-restricted lab, in that users must have been allocated cscs logins to use the machines, and must have been added to the access list to get in the lab via the umid card reader.

The lab has 20-25 desktop computers, all with 20"/21" or larger monitors. The lab machines are all redhat or ubuntu linux, with shared HOME space on a raid server. There is a mix of single and dual processor, multi-core machines. Some also have nvidia graphics cards that support CUDA. Besides the usual software provided with linux, there are also many general (eg mathematica, matlab) and specialized (eg Repast,Netlogo) software packages for creating, running and analyzing computational experiments.

There are also a few open ethernet jacks and UM wireless access for user laptops with DHCP, and some 24" screens that can be attached to laptops.

For more general information and the lab schedule, click here.

For specific computer-related questions, see our (under-construction) Computer Lab Documentation

For our old, somewhat out-dated documentation, see here.

For information about our software situtation and policy, see this.

A list of applications available on our lab computers is here.

Acknowledgements

CSCS would also like to gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, which has provided computers and other resources in our Lab, as part of the IDEAS-IGERT program, and as part of the project SLUCE and SLUCE 2 .

CSCS gratefully thanks NVidia's Professor Partnership Program for the generous donation of two Quadrao FX 5800s (in anatra and termite) and of a Tesla 1070 (tesla).

Updated September 1, 2005