Lab Facilities

Ultrafast Ti:Sapphire laser 200 fs pulses, 76 MHz repetition rate, 1 W output power, wavelength tunable

Streak camera 2 picosecond resolution, photon counting sensitivity

High resolution spectrometer with liquid nitrogen cooled CCD detector array

Two temperature controlled optical cryostat Temperature range 4-500K

Near-field scanning optical microscope

He-Cd CW laser CW output power 20mW at 325nm

High energy picosecond Nd:YAG laser 15ps pulse,  pulse energy at 1064nm > 20mJ,  532 nm > 10 mJ,  355 nm > 5mJ

Computational Facilities

Courtney - Linux Cluster The 14 nodes (21 processors) run Fedora Core 4 and Sun N1 Grid Engine 6. Click here for the cluster help pages.

Shared Computational Facilities

Bulldog I - Linux Cluster 170 Dell PowerEdge 1955 nodes, each containing 2 dual core 3.0 Ghz Xeon 64 bit EM64T Intel cpus, for a total of 680 cores. Each node has 16 GB of RAM. The network is Gigabit ethernet. Bulldogi runs a high performance Lustre filesystem. It is managed via PBS. Click here for the cluster help pages.

Bulldog J - Linux Cluster 128 compute nodes each have eight Intel Xeon cpu cores(E5440@2.83GHz) for a total of 1024 cores. Half of the nodes have 16 GB of RAM and half have 32GB of RAM. The nodes are equipped with infiniband high speed interconnects. A high speed file system called Lustre is provided for short term storage of large data sets. It is managed via PBS. Click here for the cluster help pages.

Bulldog K - Linux Cluster 192 compute nodes each have eight Intel "Xeon" cpu cores (E5410@2.66GHz) for a total of 1536 cores. Each node has 16 GB of RAM. The network is Gigabit ethernet. A high speed file system called Lustre is provided for short term storage of large data sets. It is managed via PBS. Click here for the cluster help pages.