COMPUTING FACILITIES

Earth & Planetary Sciences computing facilities include 85 Solaris machines, 40 Linux machines (connected on a Condor grid), 230 Macintosh computers, a 190-cpu Linux cluster, a 52-cpu Linux cluster, a 32-cpu Linux cluster, an 8-cpu Linux cluster, a 32-cpu SGI shared memory machine and several terabytes of backup storage. In 2007 there will be a new 800-core Linux cluster for planetary sciences.

Graduate students, researchers and postdocs have access to the Computer Research and Visualization laboratory which includes Macintosh and Dell PCs and a variety of input and output devices including a scanner, slide scanner and color and b/w laser printers. There are networked laser printers and color deskjets throughout the EMS building and a 42" poster printer is available via the electron microscope facility. A large selection of software for graphics and computational research has been collected for specific applications in Earth & Planetary Sciences.