Computing
Facilities
| A well equipped UCIS computer lab is located in the basement of the Chase Building (room 007: 494-1230). The lab is equipped with 15 computers and with print facilities. A Dalhousie NetID is required to use the computers in this lab. | ![]() |
| Other computing facilities in the department of Mathematics and Statistics. | |
| Two sun enterprise servers that host home directories, provide email, web, technical computing and other miscellaneous services. | |
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A mix of sun and x86 servers that provide important services such as tape backup, software license servers, webmail, spam filtering, file and print services etc. |
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A Linux Compute Cluster. |
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All of the servers are hosted in an air conditioned room in the basement of chase building. |
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Graduate students, faculty and researchers have access to a rich set of software - both commercial and opensource - for technical computing purposes. The available commercial software includes Matlab, Maple, Splus, Nag compilers and Nag fortran libraries. |
| Faculty, graduate students and visitors have personal computers in their offices with windows or linux as available platforms. | |
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All ethernet ports in the Chase building are fast ethernet and there are high bandwidth uplinks connecting the Chase building with the rest of the university. |
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A number of storage volumes are available through the servers providing over 2 terabytes of usable disk space for extra storage. |
Backup servers provide daily tape backup for home directories. |
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The Chase machine room also hosts a linux compute cluster owned and operated by Genome Atlantic and servers from two non profit organizations - Chebucto Community Net and Halifax Amateur Ham Radio Club. |
| We also provide technical support services for computing equipment owned by research groups from other departments. | |

