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Computing Facilities
There are two computer laboratories in the Department of Engineering Mechanics
for graduate instruction and research: a PC laboratory and a workstation
laboratory. We support Fortran90/95, C and C++ compilers under the various
platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix). Other available commercial software products
include: Mathematica, Matlab, ABAQUS/Explicit, as well as the common gnu
tools available under Linux. ANSYS software is available on the college
systems and accessible to all faculty members and graduate students. Other
supporting equipment includes laser printers, two scanners and a color
laser printer.
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The PC laboratory consists of ten Windows-based
PC’s and provides the department graduate students with access to the internet,
software for word processing, data analysis, graphics, symbolic math manipulation,
and other utilities such as scanning, printing, and terminal support for
using the college and university computer facilities.
The workstation laboratory is a state of the art resource for research
related computing. Our latest acquisitions include two dual-processor high-end
workstations with up to 3 GB of RAM and processor clocks running at 2GHz.
These workstations provide an excellent platform for research groups involved
in shape and material optimization of solids, meshless methods, polycrystal
modeling, micromechanics analysis and hybrid atomistic-continuum simulations
of grain boundaries and tribological systems in MEMS. Other department-supported
facilities include SUN SPARC workstations and two IBM 3CT (RISC 6000 system)
systems running different flavors of the Unix OS, an AMD Athlon workstation
(1.3 GHz processor and 1.5 GB RAM) running Redhat Linux, and two Pentium
III Windows PC computers (1 GHz processor and 500 MB RAM each). All these
computers are interconnected through a fast Ethernet 100 Megabit network
connection.
Students in the department involved in parallel computing also have
access to the new 256-processor super-computer facility (Prairiefire)
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