Departmental Computer Resources



Hardware

Color Postcript Printer
A HP 4600 laser color printer is accessible from unix. This printer should be especially useful for preparing color figures for papers or transparencies. The printer is located in SH207. The printer is named mathcolor and is accessible using standard unix print commands. Printing on this printer is approximately 5 times more expensive (15 vs. 3 cents per page) than printing to one of the black and white printers in the departments. While everyone is encouraged to use this as well as our other resources, please keep the cost in mind when utilizing them. For more information on printing to this printer please contact Mike Malone
Color Scanner
A Hewlett Packard color scanner has been attached to Linda Bullens PC in SH108 (the main Math Department Office). Possible uses include scanning images for web pages or for inclusion in papers. Also OCR (optical character recognition) software is available. This software uses the scanner to recognize printed material and create text files.
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MATLAB Toolboxes and License Upgrades
Matlab is now available for all networked UNIX systems (including LINUX), owned by WPI. These are some of the toolboxes available for use:
ADINA
ADINA (Automatic Dynamic Incremental Nonlinear Analysis) System 7, is a set of programs for the static and dynamic displacement and stress analysis of solids, structures and fluid structure systems. It is designed to execute a linear analysis very efficiently and can be followed by a nonlinear analysis with relatively few input changes. The package consists of five independent programs ADINA, ADINA-T, ADINA-F, ADINA-PLOT and ADINA-IN. ADINA-IN generates input data for ADINA, ADINA-T and ADINA-F and ADINA-PLOT produces graphic displays of input and/or output of the ADINA, ADINA-T and ADINA-F programs. ADINA-T (Automatic Dynamic Incremental Nonlinear Analysis of Temperatures) is used for the analysis of linear and nonlinear, steady-state and transient heat transfer, and runs independently of the others. Although ADINA can be used to analyze structure-fluids interactions, ADINA-F is specially designed for fluid flow analysis. Information or using Adina can be found here.


MAPLE

Maple 10 is now out and available for use on the unix system.  WPI also now has a license for Maple for pc's.  Maple can be acquired for the oc by logging into the admin domain.  Instructions for installing Maple 10 can be found in this page from the CCC Helpdesk.


OTHER

For information on other software that WPI supports please go to their website here.  Probably the most important software for someone to install for a pc is an antivirus program like Mcafee.  Mcafee can be installed on all computers that connect to the WPI network.  Instructions on installing Mcafee can be found on this page.



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Last modified: November 21, 2006