What hardware and software is available in the GIGA Lab?

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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

  • Last Updated Jul 15, 2025
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