Graduate Program
LIBRARY AND COMPUTER FACILITIES
Situated near the Division, the 14 story Sciences Library, is the tallest building on the Brown campus. It holds an extensively vast store of resources that support study and research in the field of Applied Mathematics, and provides a wide range of services.
The Division offers excellent computing facilities and support on both the departmental and university levels. Located only a block away, The Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT) is the center of Brown's computing facilities. Housing many computer workstations and clusters, as well as classrooms, it offers a help desk with expert consultants, as well as computer service and repair.
Housed in the Center for Computation and Visualization are parallel computing platforms with a total of roughly 500 CPUs, including several Linux cluster and an IBM SP. The Center also maintains an Immersive Virtual Reality display, a “Cave”, for scientific visualization and graphics research. Data storage facilities include 40 terabytes of RAID disk and a 600 terabyte tape library. These core computing and data facilities are integrated with the Division desktop networks and the campus backbone network through Gigabit Ethernet routing switches.
The Division desktop environment is a mix of Intel-architecture PCs and workstations running the Windows and Linux operating systems. The University maintains a broad range of campus-licensed software, including compilers, numerical libraries, mathematical problem-solving environments, visualization software, statistical packages and productivity software.
Updated: November 2006
