Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy PUC Lab
Hardware Available
In the PUC Lab:
PUC Lab hardware resources in the PUC Lab include a file server,
10 Intel-based computer workstations (8 with Windows XP, 2 with Linux), a high speed laser printer, and a color inkjet printer.
Five PC workstations are Dell Optiplex GX240 machines with Pentium 4, 2GHz processor, 512MB of RAM,
a 32MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra video card, a CD-RW Drive, a floppy drive, and a 100BaseT ethernet connection.
Three PCs are made from Intel D815EAL motherboards and have a Pentium III,
1 processor, 256 MB of RAM; on-board video, a CD-ROM, floppy, and 100BaseT ethernet connection.
The two Linux PCs are made from Intel D850MVL motherboards with a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 processor, 258MB of PC800 RDRAM, a 40 GB hard drive, CD-RW, and floppy.
The high-speed printer is HP model 4050TN.
The color printer is a (slow) HP Deskjet model 722C inkjet.
One must have a PUC account in order to use any of these machines,
and an additional account must be obtained from the Computer Center to use the Linux computers. See Linux for more information.
In the General Physics Lab:
A cluster of two computers (700MHz/128MB RAM and 233MHz/256MB RAM), a
laser printer, and a scanner is maintained in Room 165 Bloomberg--the
General Physics Lab--primarily for use by TAs for the General Physics Courses. With permission from the
PUC lab administrator or
from the General Physics Lab Manager--Mr. Bill Ruff (516-8780)--undergraduate physics students who need a scanner or imaging software may use these items. Both computers have (mostly) the same software as in the PUCLAB computers in Room 478; in additon, the 233 MHz machine to which the scanner is attached has scanning, optical character recognition, and image manipulation software.
