What hardware and software is available in the GIGA Lab?
Answer
Hardware
· Seven DELL 3650 Windows computers with Octa Core i9 5.3GHz processors, 16GB RAM, 512GB hard drives, and NVIDIA T1000 4GB(12GB shared) graphics boards
· Five Mac Studio computers with 2 - 27" 2560x1440 monitors, M1 Pro Max processors, integrated Apple G13X graphics cards. 32GB RAM, 512 GB SSD storage
Software
Available on both Windows and Mac:
· Adobe Creative Cloud — Photo, video, and publication editing (also available in main IC Lab)
· Antidote — Text & grammar correction software
· ArcGIS Pro — Mapping software
· Blender — 3D drawing and painting
· Chrome — Web browser
· Corel Painter — Digital painting
· Microsoft Visual Studio Code – Java software development
· Node.js – JavaScript runtime environment
· Firefox — Web browser
· Lightwright — Stage lighting electrical power calculator
· MatLab R — Mathematics (also available in main IC Lab)
· Python (Anaconda distribution) — software library used by GIS software
· R version and Rstudio version — Statistics
· Schlumberger Simulation — Geo-engineering simulator
· Google Earth
· SketchUp Pro — 3D modeling
· SPSS — Statistical analysis and graphing (also available in main IC Lab)
· Tableau Desktop — Data visualization
· VectorWorks — 3D CAD drafting and visualization software
· VLC – Video LAN
· Zoom – conferencing software
Available on Mac only:
· Auralia — Ear training software
· Apple Xcode SDK
Available on Windows only:
· AGi32, Lighting Analyst — Lighting calculation software
· ArcGIS Pro (ESRI) — Geo-information systems, mapping (also available in main IC Lab)
· Autodesk (Autocad) — Computer-aided design (also available in main IC Lab)
· ENVI (Excelis) — Image processing and geo-spatial analysis
· GAUSSIAN Computational chemistry software
· GCD Kit — Architectural design and building layouts
· GeoDa — Geo-spatial analysis
· IHS Kingdom Software — Oil and gas field analysis
· Inventor — Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software is used for product design, rendering and simulation.
·. Kaledo Knit, Kaledo Print, Kaledo Style - Fashion design
· Kinovea — Video player with functionality to slow down, study, comment on technique of subject in the videos
· LTSpice — SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) simulator
· Microsoft Power BI — Data visualization
· NI LabVIEW — Software development
· Petra — Oil and gas field analysis
· Rockware — Geological modeling
· SAS and JMP (SAS component) — Principle components analysis add on for SAS (base SAS package is available in the main IC Lab )
· Stata — Statistical analysis and graphing