The Barnes Computing Center (BCC) provides computer and network management and support, as well as web and application development, for the teaching, research and administrative activities of the Department. The BCC maintained 100Mbps network within the Bausch and Lomb building consists of roughly 350 different devices. Support is provided for Sun, DEC, PC and Macintosh hardware running diverse operating systems including Solaris, VMS, DEC Unix, Linux (RedHat, Fedora Core, Debian), FreeBSD, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and MacOS. Currently, the BCC Staff maintains 19 Linux and FreeBSD servers aiming to provide the department the most ubiquitous computing environment possible.

The BCC offers all Department members facilities for reading email, browsing the internet, accessing news groups and perfoming numerical computations. A public work room on the fourth floor of Bausch and Lomb offers general access for Department members to Macintosh computers, PCs, and Linux machines equipped with a variety of software for text editing, graphics, and mathematical calculation. Color printing and optical scanning are also available.

The BCC provides support for the Department's video conferencing facility, and advises Department members on the purchasing of computer hardware, software, and peripherals. The BCC operates as a part of the Sydney W. Barnes Research Laboratory of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

The Department is connected to the campus backbone over a 100Mbps link to the main campus FDDI ring. The University of Rochester and the Department of Physics and Astronomy participate in Internet 2, and are currently involved in testing applications for that network.

For further information, contact the system administrators:

David Munson Steffin Spears

(585) 275-0596 (585) 275-4825

munson@pas.rochester.edu spearssj@pas.rochester.edu

or send email to help@pas.rochester.edu