Graduate Computer Resources

Graduate Computer Resources

The Department provides a 24-hour a day, 365-day a year computer lab for our graduate students. The lab has 18 Dell Optiplex 270 PCs (P4 3.0 GHz, 2GB RAM) with the Windows XP operating system. The machines have the entire AREC suite of software installed on them including Microsoft Office, ArcInfo, SAS, Limdep, Gauss, Mathematica, Maple, MatLab, Stata, Acrobat Reader, Symantec Anti-Virus, Scientific Word, and many other programs. The Lab is supported by a series of file servers which provide storage space of 200 MB to 1 gigabyte per student, Exchange email service, FTP file transfer service, and web services. Printing is provided by an HP 4250 workgroup printer. Graduate students can access the AREC network and Internet from home via the WAM dialup supported by OIT. Graduate students also have access to various Unix workstations and minicomputers on campus. Wireless access is available to the campus network.

Computer Lab

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Last updated: 11/23/2007