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The Geography GIS Lab
The GIS lab in the Department of Geography
is actually two facilities: a PC lab and a UNIX workstation lab.
The PC lab consists of 10 PC's, each with it's own Calcomp 12X18 inch
DrawingBoard III digitizer. The PC lab also has an HP Scanjet
4C 11X17 color scanner and an HP Laserjet 4P laser printer. The
PC's are running Windows 95, PC ARC/INFO 3.5, Arcview 3.0, and a variety
of software for word processing and spreadsheet creation and for computing
geostatistical indices.
All of the PC's are networked through a dual P180
PC running Windows NT Server. The server actually resides in the
Geography Remote Sensing Lab (GRSL) and is one of many items shared
between both labs. This machine is not only the login and file
server for the PC's, but is also the web server for both labs and the
Department of Geography.
The workstation lab consists
of 6 Sun Sparc workstations: four SPARC-5's, one SPARC-20, and one Ultra
SPARC-2. The workstations are running the Solaris
2.5 operating system, ARC/INFO 7.1.1, Arcview 3.0, and ERDAS Imagine
8.3. Along with the workstations, the lab also has an ENCAD NovaJet
III plotter, an HP Laserjet 4 laser printer, a SunPics Newsprinter CL+
color ink jet printer, and a 30X40 inch digitizer. By sharing
with the GRSL the lab expands its facilities to include a 36X48 inch
digitizer, an HP 6P laserjet printer, Tektronix Phaser 200e and Phaser
440 color laser printers, another Sun SPARC-20, and a pair of P100 PC's.
The PC's are capable of acting like another pair of workstations by
running eXodus and logging into a SPARC machine. This gives us
a total potential of 9 workstations.
The lab currently has three
300mHz PC's and a Sun Enterprise 4000 Server on order. The PC's
will also be able to act as workstations and will be networked with
the workstation side of the GIS lab. The server will be the network
server for all of the workstations. It will add 25.2 gigabytes
of storage capacity to the lab bringing total storage capacity to over
32 gigabytes!
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