Computing Facilities
The laboratory provides faculty and students access to an array of computers, including Windows-based PCs driving instruments, and Linux computers running a variety of applications for crystallographic refinement, modeling and analysis. The entire array is networked by Ethernet TCP/IP and is remotely accessible for desktop/instrument control.
The Linux computer cluster forms the GRENACCHE grid partition
(GRid-ENabled Applications for Computation in CHEmistry), which is part of the
larger evolving CSU-wide "grand grid" for computation, G2.
An assortment of molecular modeling and refinement software, sequence and homology
searching software are available, including: SMART, SAINT, SHELXTL, GADDS (all from
Bruker AXS), CCP4/CCP14, Coot, Gaussian98, Mathematica (Wolfram),
DSVisualizer (Accelrys), DeepView, ORTEP3, SOLVE/RESOLVE, Schrodinger Jaguar and
Macromodel, HKL2000, MOSFLM and ICM Pro/Homology.