The other undergraduate laboratories consist of more than 200 X terminals powered by Sun and HP servers. Many faculty members have a workstation and modem at home and at least one workstation in the department. Graduate students have a variety of workstations available in several common areas, plus one or more X terminals for each graduate student office. These are in addition to any facilities they can use within their particular research group. A loaner pool of Macintoshes and modems is available for home use.
Graduate students take a very active role in the acquisition of new equipment for their use.
Most research groups have sophisticated, specialized equipment to support their particular requirements. For example, a four-processor SGI Origin server has just been received. In addition, large numbers of workstations and servers from HP, IBM, SGI, and Sun are used throughout the research labs, and PCs are becoming more and more prevalent. The bulk of our distributed server requirements are met by a collection of Sun, HP, and PC servers. File, mail, news, fax, printing and WWW requirements continue to grow.