The PC laboratory consists of ten Windows-based PC’s and provides the department graduate students with access to the internet, software for word processing, data analysis, graphics, symbolic math manipulation, and other utilities such as scanning, printing, and terminal support for using the college and university computer facilities.

The workstation laboratory is a state of the art resource for research related computing. Our latest acquisitions include two dual-processor high-end workstations with up to 3 GB of RAM and processor clocks running at 2GHz. These workstations provide an excellent platform for research groups involved in shape and material optimization of solids, meshless methods, polycrystal modeling, micromechanics analysis and hybrid atomistic-continuum simulations of grain boundaries and tribological systems in MEMS.  Other department-supported facilities include SUN SPARC workstations and two IBM 3CT (RISC 6000 system) systems running different flavors of the Unix OS, an AMD Athlon workstation (1.3 GHz processor and 1.5 GB RAM) running Redhat Linux, and two Pentium III Windows PC computers (1 GHz processor and 500 MB RAM each). All these computers are interconnected through a fast Ethernet 100 Megabit network connection.

Students in the department involved in parallel computing also have access to the new 256-processor super-computer facility (Prairiefire) available at UNL since January 2002.