The Physics student computing lab is located in room 80 of Tate Lab, and the Astronomy computer lab is in room 469B.

The computer lab is open to all Physics undergraduate and graduate students who are paying the IT Technology Fee.

Access to the lab is by a Ucard card reader. If you have trouble getting access, please check your Physics Directory entry to verify your Ucard number: http://www.physics.umn.edu/resources/myphys/profile/edit_dirinfo_form.html

The lab contains five quad-core Linux workstations, each with 6 GBytes memory.

You need a Physics account to log in to these systems - your University Internet account will not work.

These can be used for any kind of general computing needs. They contain Mathematica, MatLab, compilers for C, C++ and Fortran, as well as various other programming tools. Microsoft Office is also available on these systems.

• Please don't reset or restart a workstation - someone may have jobs running on it, or be using it from another location.
• If you're going to run a cpu-intensive job, use condor so your job can run efficiently without affecting interactive users.
• Don't lock the screen and leave for long periods. If a workstation screen is locked, and someone wants to use it, we will reset your session.

Users also have access to the department's computational facilities via the condor batch system.

• More about UNIX and Linux at Tate Lab

The lab also contains five Core 2 Duo Windows systems, each with 4 Gbytes memory, running Windows 7.

Login to these uses your University internet username and password (but you still need to be in the Physics directory for login to work).

These contain the standard Windows software set for Tate Lab: Microsoft Office, Firefox, Acrobat, Mathematica, etc.

• More about Windows at Tate Lab

This lab contains four linux and one windows workstation, with specifications and software similar to above.