Department of Mathematics - University of Houston
Computing Resources
The department occupies the sixth floor of the Philip G. Hoffman Building. The computer system in the Mathematics Department is Unix based and well-suited for the application of sophisticated mathematical packages and the development of mathematical code (for example, Fortran or C). We have one Sparc Ultra 60 2-processor machine, a Sparc 20 4-processor machine, three Sparc 20 2-processor machines, one Sparc 20 single processor machine, one IBM 390, four high performance DEC alpha workstations, each with 0.5GB memory, a two cpu SGI Octane and an O2. In addition, we have a number of other SUN, IBM, SGI and DEC alpha workstations. We also have about 50 X-window terminals (both color and black and white). In particular, every graduate office has at least one X-window terminal. The Department also has a number of PCs, some of which, including a high-performance SMP machine, running Linux. We have built a 32 node Beowulf PII-450 cluster Ypatia which we expect to have fully operational by early 2000. There is a also a Linux based undergraduate computing lab, consisting of 20 workstations and a server. Both Matlab and Maple are currently available on the lab machines. Network access to worldwide computing facilities is excellent.
Software packages available include TeX, Matlab, Maple, Splus, Geomview, dstool, Wingz, Wordperfect and Mathematica as well as C, Pascal and Fortran (f77 and f90) compilers.
The system is administered by Jason Tibbitts tibbs@uh.edu with the assistance of Dave Branda dave@math.uh.edu (PC specialist). For general questions on computing resources, contact the Director of Computing, Prof Mike Field mf@uh.edu.
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