The Advanced Computational Laboratory (ACL) is housed in Battelle Hall and managed by the Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics departments.
Faculty and undergraduates use this state-of-the-art facility to perform different types of complex computations, including:
- Symbolic
- Numeric
- Graphical
- Visualization
- Parallel
The ACL was established to:
- Motivate students to pursue graduate studies
- Foster and enhance undergraduate research
- Prepare students for professional careers by improving their communication and research skills and exposing them to cutting-edge computing technology
- Build partnerships with local companies and research centers through collaborative research projects
- Serve as a model for similar programs at other liberal arts institutions
- Integrate high-performance computing into the Computational Studies curriculum
- Support the creation and dissemination of Internet tutorials for use with an array of software packages
Advanced Computational Laboratory Hardware
- Networked Sun Microsystems SPARC with high end graphics
- Workstations networked with "fast Ethernet" for realistic simulations of parallel supercomputing and linked to the Third Frontier Network in Ohio with the support the the Ohio Board of Regeants
- High-quality laser and color ink-jet printers
- Supporting Sun Microsystems file server
- Scanner for image input and image recording devices for preserving high-quality graphical output
Advanced Computational Laboratory Software
- Maple – A computer algebra system for symbolic, numeric and graphical computations
- MATLAB – A high-performance numeric engine for visualization and computation
- Advanced Visualization System (AVS)
- Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) - A software library for parallel computing
- Message Passing Interface (MPI) – A software library for parallel and high-performance computing
- Visualization Toolkit (VTK) - An open-source toolkit for 3-D graphics visualization and animation
- C++ - A compiler used for object-oriented programming
- FORTRAN-90 – A new-generation compiler for the FORTRAN language
- Python - An open-source, cross-platform, object oriented interpreted language
- IMSL-C – A complete, state-of-the-art numerical software library
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat - A software suite for image manipulation, enhancement and production
This lab has been funded in part by:
- The National Science Foundation
- The W.M. Keck Foundation
- Battelle Memorial Institute