The Advanced Computational Laboratory 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

• Mac Minis that dual boot Windows 7 and OS X
• Workstations networked with "fast Ethernet" for realistic simulations of parallel supercomputing

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
• 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
• Python – An open-source, cross-platform, object oriented interpreted language
• STELLA – A graphical modeling and simulation system

 This lab has been funded in part by:

• The National Science Foundation
• The W.M. Keck Foundation
• Battelle Memorial Institute