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CS Facilities and Resources

There are several computing platforms available to CS students at Earlham. The primary facilities used by the Department are the Advanced Computing Laboratories (ACLs), which consist of networked 2GHz Pentium IV running Red Hat Linux 9. Earlham has three Beowulf clusters maintained by our cluster computing group: Athena, 13 233MHz AMD K6s nodes; Bazaar, 16 dual processor 500MHz Pentium IIIs nodes; and Cairo, 16 dual processor 1GHz PPCs nodes. The college has laboratories around campus consisting of PC compatible and Macintosh microcomputers. These systems support a variety of operating systems, programming languages, software development tools, and database systems, all of which are available for student use. All of the computing facilities on campus are linked together with a high-speed network which allows resources to be used from most locations.

Students have the opportunity for software development and programming experience under Redhat Linux, Debian Linux, and FreeBSD UNIX. Earlham's Wildman Science Library holds a selection of computer science periodicals and volumes to support faculty and students in their work. Students have access to on-line information sources including Dialog and the Internet.

CS and non-CS folk alike actively use the ethernet ports installed in the rooms and lobbies of all the dormitories. In addition, ethernet ports have been placed throughout campus for easy connection to the Internet in a variety of locations.

Earlham has been lauded as one of the most 'unwired' colleges in Indiana, having an extensive WiFi network which extends over the entire campus and may soon reach to the barn, if HIP has anything to do with it.