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Facilities
Anne and Charles Duncan Hall was designed to allow for shared resources
among engineering departments, facilitating multidisciplinary research
and education. Private offices, classroom, laboratories, lecture
halls, an auditorium, conference rooms, and courtyards surround the
atrium. This proximity eases communication and fosters
collaboration. Departments, institutes, and centers in Duncan Hall
include electrical and computer engineering, as well as computational
and applied mathematics, statistics, and computer science, the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (K2I), the Center for High Performance
Software Research (HiPerSoft), and the Center for
Multimedia Communication (CMC) which is situated in a dedicated
Texas Instruments Wing. The Abercrombie Building, located adjacent to
Duncan Hall, houses part of electrical and computer engineering, as
well as chemical engineering and civil and environmental
engineering.
All research programs in the department use the extensive computing facilities available for education and research, including two state of the art clean rooms, an undergraduate lab, and a DSP "Elite" Lab. Resources are on a local area network of heterogeneous machines running variations of UNIX operating systems, Windows, and various networking software. The computational hardware available to our faculty and students includes the Rice Computational Research Cluster, a 3 TeraFLOP Cray XD1 Linux cluster, and the Rice Terascale Cluster, a 1 Teraflop HP Integrity Linux cluster. In addition the these large scale shared resources individual research groups and department have access to and manage various parallel machines and small clusters of workstations and PCs. Facilities Directory (room - extension)
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