New Computers for Math/CS Lab
ON APRIL 8, 1999, NINE NEW COMPUTERS were installed in
the computer lab of the Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science. The new computers have 500 megahertz Pentium III central
processing units and 128 megabytes of random access memory.
The computers will be running the Linux operating system, which is
also used on the department's server computer. These computers,
like the server, will be used by students who are enrolled in computer
science courses.
The Math/CS computing lab was established in 1991 with 16 Macintosh
IIsi computers. The funding for the lab was provided by a grant from
the National Science Foundation, with matching funds and renovation
costs provided by Hobart and William Smith Colleges. A few years later,
a second grant added three Sun workstations to the lab, and just last
year a grant from the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust paid for extensive
renovation and refurnishing of the lab. However, the number and
quality of computers in the lab had dwindled as machines reached the
end of their useful life. The nine new computers, which were purchased
with College funds as part of its regular program of equipment
replacement and renewal, restore the lab to the leading edge of
computer performance.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges