Computing Facilities

The Chemistry Department has a cluster of Silicon Graphics computers consisting of a four processor Origin200 server, two O2 workstations and two Indy workstations. The software that is currently available on these computers includes Gaussian98, which performs sophisticated ab initio quantum chemistry calculations, Cerius2 and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Base which carry out molecular mechanics calculations of molecules, surfaces, and proteins as well as for advanced visualization techniques. The mathematics applications, Matlab and Mathematica, are available as well. Data from the NMR spectrometers and the X-ray diffractometers are regularly processed here. The Chemistry Department also supports numerous personal computers for data acquisition, computation, and word processing.

The Division of Information Technology operates countless UNIX and Windows based computers which provide a wide variety of services including e-mail. There are also several microcomputer laboratories, located throughout the campus, which are set up for exclusive use of the students.

The University supports a state of the art campus wide network which connects nearly all of the computers on campus as well as computers at other facilities worldwide. Using the campus network, one can search the science library card holdings or communicate with colleagues at the far corners of the globe via the Internet. The Chemical Abstracts Service, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Base and the Brookhaven Protein Data Base are also available on-line.