GENERAL COMPUTING FACILITIES

We have a diverse computing environment in the Earth and Planetary Sciences. Each group has computers that meet their specific needs. In general laboratory equipment tends to be be connected to MS-Windows computers. Macs are used for analysis and writing papers, but this varies from lab to lab. Solaris and Linux computers are often used in fields with high volumes of data that need analysis and/or uses custom analysis programs, such as seismology. The various groups have about 30 Solaris machines, 77 Linux machines (connected on a Condor grid), 230 Macintosh and Windows computers combined and we have about 50 laser printers spread throughout the department. Also, the department has a large selection of software for graphics and computational research for specific applications.

We also have a small computing lab that is available for general use that consists of 3 Macs, 1 PC, a black and white and color laser printer. A flatbed scanner is also available.

High Performance Computer Clusters

• Planetary Research (Pleiades)
• Modeling and Image Lab (mip)
• Climate Change And Impacts and Earth Modeling Laboratories (nimbus)