Computational Facilities
The Acoustics Program has a large variety of computational facilities that are used for
both research and classwork. Generally available are workstations, PCs, and Macintosh
computers. Most research groups have their own computing facilities as well. Facilities
for projection of PC and workstation video exist in the Acoustics Classroom and the ARL
Auditorium.
 
The ACS Teaching Lab (left) is equipped with networked PCs for data/file sharing. The ACS
Classroom (right) is fully equipped with computer projection and audio/video facilities.
Workstation Facilities
HP 9000-720 with CRX24 graphics board, 96 Mb of RAM, 4.3 Gb disk
DEC Alpha AXP 600 with 160 Mb RAM, 6 Gb disk, running OSF/1
DECStation 5000-200 with 24 Mb RAM, 1.3 Mb disk.
Some of the Available Software:
Raynoise, COMET/Acoustics, AVS, SYSNOISE, IDEAS, Matlab, Mathematica, Fortner Graphics
(Plot and Transform), TeX.
PC Facilities
(7) Pentium 166, 64M RAM running Windows NT and LINUX w/ethernet
Some of the Available Software:
LabView, Mathematica, Matlab, MS Office, WordPerfect, XWin, Netscape, full suite of
network clients, Linux Xwindows interface
Macintosh Facilities
(2) Power Macintosh 7100/66 w/ethernet
(1) Macintosh IIfx w/ethernet
(1) Macintosh IIsi w/ethernet (with 500Meg drive acting as file server)
Some of the Available Software:
MS Office, Freehand, Illustrator, MacDraw Pro, Bose Modeler, Mathematica, DeltaGraph Pro,
TeXtures, full suite of network clients
Other Facilities
In addition to the Acoustics Programs's facilities, the Penn State Center for Academic Computing (CAC) facilities can be
used by all students. These facilities include the following clusters, which have
Mathamatica, IDEAS, and a variety of other engineering software packages:
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