The Department is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Building. Recently, the Department has acquired a new network server, several new PC based computers, including Pentium-IV dual processor Dell Precision 530 Dual Processors workstations, and new Unix workstations. The Department now has three operating systems: Linux, Unix, and PC-based NT. Merlot is an Intel-based Linux server. It is a Dell Poweredge 2550 rack (see picture) mounted server with dual Pentium III processors and a RAID disk array. It provides email, web, and file sharing services to the department. A PC-based Windows NT operating System equipped with a HP NetServer LH Pro Model 1-Array 6/200 machine networks all PCs in the department's graduate computer lab as well as all PCs in the faculty, staff and graduate students' offices. It is also linked to the department Linux server and other university networks and mainframe.
Two Compaq XP1000 EV6 677MHZ Unix workstations were purchased two years ago. These two Unix machines along with another Compaq alpha workstation run the Unix true 64 operating system. The Unix system provides independent email, web, and file sharing services, and they are also networked to the Linux server and other university networks. The Unix system is reliable and numerically stable and it is an important complement of the Department computer facility, which can be directly used for large scale numerical computing and statistical simulation. The large software base is now available in both Unix machines and PCs, which includes SAS, S-Plus, GLIM, MINITAB, Mathematica, IMSL (Fortran and C), as well as other packages and languages.
 
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The Department's computers are managed and maintained by two lab managers, a Unix and Linux quarter time operations manager (Tim Ruggerieri) and a PC quarter time operations manager from the office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The computer management team maintains, installs, and upgrades the operating systems, and they also provide the service of weekly tape-backing up as well as daily trouble-shooting of system problems.
Most recently, the Department has received a SCREMS grant from the National Science Foundation with the matching support from the University. It is anticipated that more new computers, color and Laser printers, and more new software will be purchased. The Department's computer facilities will be improved even further.
In addition to the advanced computing facilities, the department also has a Statistics Library containing hundreds of volumes of Statistical work, including journals, classic texts and newly published books. The library is available to all faculty and graduate students of the department.
 
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