AML ViSlab - Use & Access Policy

The Courant Institute Applied Mathematics Laboratory (AML) is composed of an experimental fluid dynamics laboratory (the WetLab), located in rooms 103 and 104 in Warren Weaver Hall and a visualization and scientific computation facility (the ViSLab). The ViSLab three areas -- room 105, next to the elevators room 624 and 730 . In addition, the ViSLab owns several high-end computational servers and a mass storage system, all located behind closed doors on the 2nd floor and accessed remotely, and it has contributed to various software, network, and peripheral equipment improvements throughout the Department. A visualization expert, Estarose Wolfson, is available to help with specialized use of the ViSLab equipment.

Mathematics graduate students may find the following AML/ViSLab facilities of most use.

• The equipment in rooms 624 and 730 is accessible to anyone who has an account on one of the Mathematics Department servers, i.e., quack and quixote for students, and math1, cmcl3 and mfdd for faculty and staff. At present room 624 contains four Sun Ultra-10 workstations (quorum3-quorum6), two SGI O2 workstations (hokum and fulcrum), one SGI Octane workstation (nostrum), and an HP LaserJet 5si mx printer (nhp15). Room 730 contains six Ultra-10 workstations (quorum7 - quorum12) and a HP LaserJet 4000N printer (nhp33).

• The equipment in room 105 is for Mathematics students and faculty who need access to specialized graphics workstations for projects related to the research and educational aims of the AML/ViSLab. Room 105 has at this time one SGI Onyx2 (simulacrum), one SGI Octane (datum), one SGI O2 with video attachments (subgum), three Sun Ultra 80s (bionum1, bionum2, and bionum3 *), and one Apple Power MacIntosh G3 with scanner and CDrom-writer attachments. Three printers are located in this room, an HP Laser Jet 4000N b/w printer (nhp31), a Tektronix Phaser 350 color (nettk02) and an HP Design Jet 755CM large format color printer (nhpbig01). To gain access to the ViSLab in room 105 graduate students can pick up an application form from Tamar Arnon in WWH 723 and return it with a paragraph justifying your need to use the facility. Assuming your need is found sufficient, then your NYU card will be activated to gain access to the lab through the card reader at the entrance. Cards will be activated on a yearly basis. Faculty and postdoc users should ask Bas Braams, Mike Shelley, or Steve Childress, or Estarose Wolfson for a card key application. The application should be signed by Mike Shelley or Steve Childress.
  
  *The Sun Ultra80 bionum3 is doubled-headed:
  The 19" inch monitor is the default monitor (DISPLAY :0.0) and the login screen.
  The 24" monitor can be accessed by moving the mouse far right or running applications in a terminal after typing: setenv DISPLAY :0.1
  

• In addition, 1 Sun Ultra80 (bionum4), 2 Sun Ultra10s (quorum1 & quorum2), and 1 SGI Octane (redrum) are in various offices in WWH and can be accessed remotely.

• An additional Tektronix Phaser 350 color printer (nettk01) is located in room 1128. This is for use by faculty, staff, and students on the 10th & 11th floors.

• The aforementioned Sun Ultra-10 workstations,quorum1 through quorum12 , may be accessed remotely (by telnet or rlogin) from within the Institute and we encourage their use as computational servers by Mathematics graduate students. They can also be used from the console, of course. If you are at the console, do not reboot these machines and do not turn the power off and on -- this disrupts the background jobs and the work of users logged in remotely.

• On the contrary, the SGI machines in room 105 should not be used to run background jobs between the hours of 8am-1am (7days/week), since these machines are used primarily as visualization workstations.

• The remotely accessible computational servers on the 2nd floor (spectrum, septum, stratum) and the mass storage system (aml) are intended to support faculty research, but they may also be of interest to students who require high-end computational equipment for their thesis work if it is related to the research aims of the AML/ViSLab. Students who are interested in using this equipment should have their faculty advisor contact Bas Braams or Mike Shelley.

For help and advice with use of the Courant Institute workstation network Mathematics students can contact mconsult@cims.nyu.edu. For matters that require the attention of the systems support staff the contact address is comment@cims.nyu.edu. Estarose Wolfson, our visualization specialist, can be reached by email: estarose  at  nyu.edu .

More information about the AML ViSLab and WetLab and it's equipment and software is available at http://www.math.nyu.edu/aml. The AML is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Estate of Edward A. Sears, the Silicon Graphics Corporation, the Mobil Foundation, and New York University.