The Lab

The MarsCloudLab is located in Science Hall 152 which is a dedicated computational facility. The room has 4 desks with workstations and another 3 workstations at standing workspaces. One wall is dominated by a whiteboard for brainstorming sessions. There are 7 AlmaLinux 9.6 based workstations, 2 with AMD Ryzen PRO 5955WX 16-core 4.0GHz CPU and 500 GB RAM, the others with an Intel Core i7-2600 3.40GHz CPU and 4 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GF106GL (Quadro 2000) video card. Dr. Klassen's workstation runs the same OS and software on an Intel Xeon E5-1650v2 3.50GHz CPU with 32 GB of RAM. They all connect to a central data server that currently has 500 GB of storage and a central license server for our 10-seat Mini-Lab IDL license. For larger tasks, the lab owns two nodes on the Rowan University Computer Cluster; these compute nodes have 2 Intel Xeon E5.2670v3 2.3GHz CPUs each with 12 cores and 64 GB of RAM. They are connected a 24 TB storage node. The system uses SLURM for submission of background computational tasks. The lab has access to the departmental HP Designjet Z5400 for printing presentation posters.