Within Abbott Hall, the department maintains a broad array of instrumental and reference facilities that are accessible to faculty and students on a 24 hour basis. Students are also able to access an impressive range of computer resources that are present within the department, available on campus through high speed networks, or available off campus through nation-wide information networks. The department operates a wide range of modern instruments that support research programs in all areas of chemistry. Numerous other specialized instruments are used by individual faculty members and their students. C omputer F acilities Graduate students in the Department can expect to have adequate computational support to undertake modern research, whether this research is experimental or computational.
Platforms range from micro to mainframe.
A MicroVax II satisfies the computational needs of chemistry courses that require student programming, and supports chemical reaction database searching. Several research groups also maintain workstations for specialized tasks. X-ray crystallography is handled on a MicroVax 3100 while molecular modeling is carried out on Silicon Graphics Personal Iris and Saber 6 workstations. Faculty and graduate students are eligible for accounts and CPU time on any of these machines. Clearly, the state of North Dakota and UND have strong commitments to computational resources that meet the requirements of individual researchers and students.