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The Facilities

The Facilities

Overview
The Computer Applications Lab (the CAL) is the home of Scientific Computing at Evergreen. The mission of the CAL is to support students who are enrolled in the Physical and Natural Sciences. Originally established in 1985, the CAL underwent a major remodel during the summer of 2000. The CAL is now comprised of two distinct teaching labs, East and West, with 26 workstations in each lab. With an upgraded facility, new equipment, and a growing staff, the CAL continues to change to meet the needs of the Evergreen scientific community. In addition to the CAL, Scientific Computing maintains over 80 other computers, including portable data acquisition equipment, mobile and laptop computers, specialty instrumentation computers and high-end imaging machines. The majority of this equipment can be found in one of two lab spaces: the East and West CAL. While the vast majority of our computers are Windows-based PCs, the CAL does support a small cluster of Macintosh and Unix/Linux-based computers. Although the CAL maintains a seperate domain, all machines are connected to the Evergreen campus network (Windows NT/2000-based) for file sharing and E-mail/Internet access.
Desktop Workstations Specialized Imaging Tools Mobile Workstations/Laptops Printing and Presentation Resources Scientific Peripherals, Wireless, and Miscellany Software

West CAL	East CAL

24 Gateway E-4500 series workstations P-IV (3.2 GHz) with 2Gb RAM 160 Gb 7200rpm hard drives CD-RW/DVD-RW Combo Drive NVIDIA 7200TC 256MB w/DVI 21” Mitsubishi monitor Windows XP-SP2 Standard CAL software package	25 Gateway E-6100 series workstations Pentium IV (3.0GHz) with 1Gb RAM 100 Gb hard drives CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 19” Gateway LCD Monitor Windows XP-SP2 Standard CAL software package
Specialized Imaging Tools
4 Power Mac G5 workstations Dual 2.7GHz Processors with 1Gb RAM 160Gb hard drives DVD-RW ATI Radeon 9650 256Mb RAM 19” Apple Wide LCD Monitor Flatbed Scanner Mac OS X Adobe Creative Suite	2 Gateway E-4500 series workstations Specifications above.
Mobile Workstations/Laptops
8 Gateway M460 Laptops Centrino 1.73GHz Processors with 1 Gb Ram 60 Gb hard drives CD-RW / DVD-Rom Combo 15" Widescreen Display Wireless LAN Windows XP-SP2	2 iBooks Mac OS X 10.2.3 (700MHz) with 640 Mb RAM 20 Gb Ultra ATA drive CD-RW / DVD-Rom Combo ATI Rage M6 AGP 16 Mb
Printing and Presentation Resources
Printing The majority of the CAL printing duties are filled by two HP LaserJet 8100-ND printers. A large-format (up to 36” wide) HP DesignJet 1055N plotter is available for presentation-quality posters & maps, and a HP color LaserJet 4500 is available for 8.5×11 color printing. All printers / plotters are directly connected to the CAL network.	Presentations Two fixed-mount LCD projectors are available for class and presentation use. These projectors include the following software and hardware: S video VGA Connection RCA Serial Connection DVD Player There are also 2 additional mobile projector units available for checkout.
Scientific Peripherals, Wireless, and Miscellany
CD and DVD Related Equipment: CD-RW/DVD-RW combo drives in all machines in West CAL DVD Combo drives in all machines in East CAL DVD Players on 2 projectors Wireless Cisco wireless access points through Labs I and II Questions about our wireless network? Look at Using Evergreen’s Wireless Network for more information.	Peripheral Equipment Summagraphics Microgrid IV Digitizing Tablets (2) Summagraphics Microgrid III Digitizing Tablets (18"x20" active area) (7) Mobile Apple Airport Basestation 3 channel Vernier MPLI data acquisition (15 units) 4 channel Vernier Lapro data acquisition (20 units) Trimble Geoexplorer III GPS with external antennae (2 units) LaCie USB Universal Multimedia Card Readers (2 units)