206 Pillsbury Hall:
Department of Geology and Geophysics Computer Lab
This page is still incomplete.
The Computer Lab in 206 Pillsbury is designed for the use
of undergraduate and graduate students taking classes in or relating
to the Department of Geology and Geophsyics, and for the use of
researchers, staff and faculty related to the Department.
In order to use the lab, users must obtain the keycode for the lab from either
the lab manager (System Administrator,
geology@umn.edu, x6-6541) or the front office (Rm. 104), and
sign an Computer Acceptable Use Policy to insure that they are aware of what is
acceptable and unacceptable use of the 206 lab. They also need to be aware
of
the rules governing all use of computer facilities related to the University
In addition, in order to print to the printers in the lab, the user must
have or obtain a printing account.
For information specific to the lab, such as tips on how to
print posters, Internet
resources for geology related subjects, and a plethora
of other information, please visit
the main computer resource page
or the How-To page
Resources (as of 8/02):
Hardware:
- 3 SGI Indy workstations (soon to be replaced with i386 machines running Linux or BSD)
- 2 Apple G3 Power Macintoshes (soon to be retired)
- 3 Apple 400 MHz Power Mac G4s
- 1 Apple 450 Mhz Dual processor Power mac G4
- 9 Pentium 4 class Windows machines
- two 2200 DPI Umax Astra 2200 color scanners
- a Nikon Coolscan LS1000 slide scanner
- a 4x5 ft Calcomp digitizing table (currently not hooked up)
- a Lasergraphics Personal LFR digital film recorder (slidemaker, or create 35mm slides from computer files)
- an HP 4000N black and white laser printer
- a Tektronix Phaser 850 Color solid ink printer
- a 42" wide HP DesignJet 800PS color Large Format Plotter(poster maker)
- OpenBSD file server for Macs and PCs.
- WinNT (soon to be Win2K) print server
- OpenBSD web server
Software:
A more up-to-date list is available
- Drawing and presentation programs: Illustrator and Photoshop
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
- Graphing (Deltagraph, Sigmaplot, Tecplot, Kaleidagraph, Surfer)
- GIS programs: Arcview GIS, ArcInfo
- Matlab, Mathematica, Stella, SPSS, Scientific Workplace
- Geology Specific programs: Stereonet and the like
- Internet related software: DreamWeaver, Popmail, Netscape, Fetch/FTP, ssh, telnet etc.
- Various other as need presents itself
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