The technical staff can help with acquiring software for research purposes. The technical staff recommends creating a separate, top-level pro project for each research project. Researchers may reserve any or all of the CPUs for a period of time to run experiments. Quahog Quahog is a polite distributed processing system. It allows researchers to take advantage of the unused cycles of idle workstations throughout the department.
Quahog works best with easily parallelizable jobs that complete in an hour or two.
Very short running jobs do fine, as quahog's overhead is very minimal. Send email to quahog for more information. The Computer Science Department has a long history of freely distributing research software. An anonymous ftp archive and web server are available to make it easy for people to find your software and other research results. Researchers may, of course, use their personal web pages to promote their work, or request from the webmaster a separate web page.