Computing Facilities 
For many years the Department has recognised the importance of excellent computing facilities to support research and teaching. The principal research resource is a AMD Opteron based Linux Beowulf cluster. There are currently a total of 152 cores with 188G RAM in this cluster. Some of these computers are connected with high speed, low latency Infiniband network cards for distributed parallel processing computations. This cluster is funded by the department and research groups.
A suite of 66 machines is provided to 2nd and 3rd professional year students for teaching use and over 200 additional machines are networked to various research groups. A further suite of 100 PCs is shared with the other
departments within the Faculty of Engineering. The computers in the undergraduate labs have dual boot to run Microsoft Windows and also a Linux operating system.
The department resources, maintained by five support staff, include an extensive range of languages, electrical design and simulation packages, drawing and drafting packages, office products and others. A variety of software which is not maintained within the department, such as database programs and symbolic language processors, is accessible from a central resource over the campus network.