Our Facilities

Students in the Physics Department have an enormous amount of computing power at their disposal. The department supports a bank of high-speed scientific workstations including Silicon Graphics parallel processors, IBM RS/6000, Hewlett-Packard 9000 series, and DEC Alpha models. Students can access them directly or via network from three computer labs containing personal computers for the exclusive use of our majors. Also accessible is the College of Arts and Science's multi-media lab. For those who get involved in computational research with a faculty member, access to supercomputers at several national centers is also available. Our workstations offer programming in the Fortran and C languages as well as powerful mathematical and scientific visualization software, while the personal computers provide web and internet access and a wide variety of software.