The Department of Statistics is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Building. The Department has a teaching computer lab and a research computer lab.
The Department has three Intel-based Linux workstations in the research lab dedicated to large scale numerical computing and statistical simulation.
Recently, the Department received a SCREMS grant from
the National Science Foundation with the
matching support from the College and the University.
With this funding, the Department replaced all the PCs in the research
lab with 15 new Dell OptiPlex double dual-cores PCs with Window XP
operating systems and purchased a Linux based computer cluster with 32 computing nodes, each with double quad-cores in 2008. With these changes, the computing
facilities of the Department are now accessible
to the graduate students, visiting scholars, and faculty members.
A large software base is now available in either the PCs or the Linux
workstations in both labs, which includes SAS, S-Plus, SPSS, GLIM,
MINITAB, Mathematica, Maple, IMSL (Fortran and C),
R, WinBUGS, as well as other packages and languages.
IMSL (Fortran and C) and R are also available in the department linux cluster.
 
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The Department's computers are managed and maintained by four lab
managers, a 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, and a student Linux cluster
manager and a student Webmaster. The computer management team maintains,
installs, and upgrades the operating systems and software, and they also
provide the service of weekly tape-backing up as well as daily trouble-shooting of
system problems.
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