[Last Update: August 2019]

Texas A&M University
Department of Mathematics
Available Computing Resources


The Department of Mathematics operates over 275 Linux
desktop systems in faculty, staff, and graduate student offices.
These systems are served by a departmental fileserver running
Linux.  Several additional physical servers run virtual servers
for web, e-mail, database, backup, and other services.  Virtual machine
login servers provide a modest amount of computational capability and
Windows remote desktop services.

The Department has been operating its Calclab systems since the
mid-1990's. Today these consist of 247 Linux desktop systems
across seven computational laboratories.  These are used for
instructional purposes ranging from Engineering Calculus I and II,
Differential Equations, to graduate level Mathematical Modeling
classes.  By night, they serve as a very capable computational
platform, providing over 30TFlops of aggregate performance.  The
Calclab systems are part of the SURAgrid Virtual Organization within
the Open Science Grid, and Department IT staff are very active in the
SURAgrid VO.

The Department also operates twelve development servers for funded
research. These servers span three generations of hardware,
the most current being Intel Haswell servers.

The University's central Division of IT provides general academic
computing services to faculty, staff, and students at its seven open
access labs running Windows 10. Other centrally provided services
include wired and wireless networking, printing, and software
site licenses.

Other facilities available to faculty, staff, and students at Texas
A&M include the Brazos Cluster, a 3,380-core hybrid
Intel/AMD/InfiniBand/Ethernet cluster operated by the Academy for Advanced
Telecommunication and Learning Technologies; the Ada Cluster, a
17,340-core Intel/InfiniBand cluster, and Terra, a 8,512 core
Intel/NVIDIA/Omnipath cluster operated by Texas A&M
High Performance Research Computing; and the Texas A&M Immersive
Visualization Center, which provides a 25'x8' rear-projected
curved 3D visualization screen.