The EP department has access to many UNIX workstations, X-window terminals, DEC VAXs and personal computers (Macintoshes and PCs) networked via Ethernet and connected to the college, university and Internet.

In addition, the college's Computer-Aided Engineering Center, with facilities available to all engineering students, supports a large number of scientific workstations and personal computers, the college computing network (on a fiber-optic backbone), file servers, and a parallel processing scientific visualization laboratory.

The university provides many general computing resources, including a large pool of high-speed modems for dial-up (SLIP) access to university computers and the Internet.

In addition to these general computing facilities, some specialized computing resources are available through various EP research groups: supercomputing (on CRAY and massively parallel computers) at the DOE-sponsored National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC) for magnetic fusion and plasma physics research, and at the NSF-sponsored San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) for inertial confinement fusion, fission reactor safety, and mechanics research; a fiber-optic networked cluster of state-of-the-art scientific workstations (SUNs, IBM RS/6000s, DEC-alphas) in the Center for Plasma Theory and Computation (CPTC); and a cluster of SUN and HP workstations in the Computational Mechanics Group.

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