The department currently has 65 computers running Linux. Most of these computers are personal workstations using Intel or AMD cpus. They are all connected to the ethernet and share resources. Accounts on most of the machines are shared and user filesystems are generally accessible. There are a number of general-use computers in the department for use by graduate students. A few of the computers use the latest commodity processors for performing more intensive numerical calculations.

Approximately 50% of the computers in the department run Microsoft Windows. These are mostly self-managed except for administrative computers and a few general access computers.

Our department has a full-time Computer Systems Manager who maintains communications, manages computing resources, and solves computer-related problems.

An increasing amount of departmental computing utilizes resources provided by UK's Center for Computational Sciences. CCS runs a variety of platforms to accomodate the needs of various researchers. These include SGI, HP, Sun Microsystems, FreeBSD, and Linux. In particular, HP's N-Class Supercomputer SDX is ranked among the top 200 Supercomputers in the world, and is among the top 10 supercomputers running at academic institutions. For examples of Physics and Astronomy research conducted at CCS, see the following links:

• Physics at CCS
• Astrophysics at CCS