Facilities
In addition to general University computing facilities, and our
Undergraduate Computing Laboratory (Maclab)
in the Regenstein Library (which contains about
four dozen Macintosh G4 computers and 20 linux machines), the Ryerson
Research Computing Laboratory provides the faculty, graduate students, and
postdoctoral associates in computer science with state of the art
computing resources: 24-hour 7-day interactive computing services on a
number of shared Unix computing servers and workstations; for users in
Ryerson Hall, a workstation (typically a Athlon KMD Linux machine) on
each desktop; substantial amounts of personal hierarchically organized
on-line file storage, backed up nightly for reliability, and accessible
transparently from all departmental computers; printer service on several
typesetter-quality PostScript laser printers, including two color
printers; access to departmental computers through the University's
dial-up service;
specialized parallel floating-point computational service for numerical
users; access to the Internet, providing electronic mail, file transfer,
World Wide Web, and remote login connections to other research
organizations around the world. The department also has
access to supercomputers and highly parallel machines at Argonne National
Laboratories.