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PHYSICS COMPUTING LAB

Physics Computing Lab Resources

Last updated September 21, 2008.

The Physics Computing Lab is maintained by the Physics Department and the Center for Experimental Computation (CEC).

Laser002 is a networked Kyocera Mita FS-3830N. All computers in the Physics Computing Lab can access laser002 over the network.

Hardware:

  • 11 Windows PCs
  • Several dual boot with Linux
  • Scanner
  • Printer
  • All PCs have CD-RW

 

Both Windows and Linux have the following software:

  • Latex (TeXLive)/Winshell
  • Matlab R2007a
  • Mathematica 6
  • Office 2003
  • Ghostscript 7.05
  • Web browsers
  • Utilities
  • Media players

Windows also has MS Visual Studio.NET 2003 and Linux has Gnucompiler and Mozilla.

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