217 Student Computing Lab

The 217 Fairchild Hall Student Computing Lab is designed to meet the computational needs of all affiliated users  in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The lab is composed of a mix of high performance workstations with a focus on memory, processor, and GPU intensive computational tasks.

Resources

Hardware

  • Six High Performance Dell Precision Dual Monitor Workstations with high end GPUs 
    • Workstations can be linked in a minicluster for computationally intensive photogrammetry tasks using Agisoft Metashape. 
  • Seven Dell Optiplex Desktops
  • VR Headset
Resources

SOFTWARE

General Productivity / Academic Software

  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access)
  • Adobe Acrobat Professional
  • Secure Shell (SSH)
  • Maple
  • Matlab
  • R
  • Python
  • Kaleidagraph
  • Stella

Graphic Work

  • Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop and Illustrator)

GIS / Image Processing

  • ArcGIS (w/ arcinfo) 
  • ArcGIS Pro
  • ENVI 4.5
  • Agisoft Metashape

Geochemical

  • Geochemist's Workbench (must use with the white hardware keys)
  • Visual Mintec
  • IgPet

Lab Team

Supervisor: Ed Meyer

Please contact Ed Meyer for all software installation needs, and issues related to hardware or currently installed software.