Mathematics

Facilities


Department computers are accessible from residence halls over the campus network, and from off-campus via modem or an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Departmental and university networks provide access to the Internet and the Pennsylvania Education Network (PrepNET). Departmental research computers have a connection to the campus backbone at 100 Mbps and are also on the vBNS via a campus OCS ATM connection.

The computing resources of the Mathematics Department include:

  • Math Resource Center (Korman 247): 6 Dell Optiplex (Core 2 Duo 2.8 Ghz, 3
    GB RAM) running Windows XP Professional SP3.
  • Faculty Center (Korman 207): 2 Lenovo ThinkCentre (Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz, 1 GB
    RAM) running Windows XP Professional SP3.
  • Computer Server: One Penguin Server (Dual 2.2. GHz Opteron, 8 GB RAM) running Ubuntu Linux.
  • File/Print/Mail/Web Server: 2 Penguin Servers (Dual 2.8 GHz Zeon, 1 GB RAM) running Ubuntu Linux and connected to 600GB RAID 5 Disk over a fully switched gigabit Ethernet network, 2TB mirrored RAID.