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Computing Resources

The School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has an extensive computing environment containing over 500 machines on four networks that are used by faculty, staff, and students for research and instruction.  This environment is currently overseen by two system administrators and a small staff of undergraduate assistants.  The server infrastructure was replaced in spring 2007 providing automatic backup facilities and improved data security  systems.
 
The School maintains two large instructional computing labs dedicated for the use of students affiliated with the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering only. The Class of 60 Undergraduate Computer Laboratories in B57 and B78 Olin Hall consist of sixty Windows XP-based machines and printers.  Thanks to the endowment of this laboratory by the members of the Class of 60, roughly one-third of the machines in the faclity are replaced every year. Each team of senior students is provided with a laptop for their shared use during their senior year, allowing them the flexibility for wireless communication and teamwork.  The laptop remains the property of the School and is returned at the completion of the senior year.
 
The Intel Graduate Computing Laboratory is accessible by the School's nearly 100 graduate students.  Since 1995, the Intel Corporation has been supporting the development of a computer cluster to support graduate research in Chemical Engineering that currently consists of twenty fast workstations (40 processors) accessible over the network.  The Intel donation in 2007 tripled the computing resources in the cluster.  A graduate computing laboratory containing twelve workstations and three printers is available in 316 Olin Hall for use by graduate students.
 
In addition to these instructional facilities, there are over a hundred computer systems that are reserved for use by individual research groups.

Information for users of the facilities is given below.

Web Pages

UNIX

X-Windows

What to do if you have a computer problem

If you have a problem related to the use or operation of any ChE computing facilities, send e-mail to support@cheme.cornell.edu  together with the following information:

  • Your name
  • Your account name
  • Your e-mail address
  • What room you are having your problem in, and with which computer in that room
  • What your problem is, including a bried description of your actions and the error message you received.

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