Graduate Computer Resources

Computing Resources for Graduate Students

Wireless service is available campus wide. The AREC Department provides a 15 seat computer lab for the exclusive use of our graduate students available 24 hours a day. Another 25 seat lab is available by reservation for classes, presentations and research (e.g. experimental economics sessions). These labs are equipped Pano Logic "zero" (aka thin) client devices that connect end users to desktop virtual machines. This solution allows graduate students the ability remotely access  a virtual desktop with all the applications listed below, as well as their files stored on the network servers. The following applications are available at this time:

ArcInfo

Filezilla (FTP Client)

Mozilla Firefox

Fortran

Google Earth

Maple

Mathematica

Matlab

MS Office 2007

Nlogit

Perl

R

SAS

Scientific Word

Stata

TextPad

WinEdt



Each AREC graduate student is allocated storage space on the network and an email account (Outlook/Exchange 2007). A networked printer is available in the graduate student computer lab.

Computer Lab

Computer Lab

For more information, contact webmaster@arec.umd.edu

Last updated: 10/29/2009