Computing Resources

Students and faculty in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences have access to excellent computing facilities, including mainframes and personal computers running a broad selection of software.

The Daniel E. Noble Science Library, a member of the Center for Research Libraries, has a very good holding of mathematical texts and journals, its operations are fully computerized to aid in literature searches.

The Central Computing Services facilities are offered at no or small charge to the University community for use in academic pursuits,including the ASU Advanced Computing Center. Our school purchased 200 cores in 2015 from ASU research computing. The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences has also their own advanced computing facility based on Linux servers and workstations.

Winter 2022 we added a high end compute server for use by our graduate students. This server has 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6226R @2.90GhZ processors, 64 Threads, 512GB RAM and a raid array level 5. Students perform large computations on this server.

In Fall of 2019 we replaced our old math server with a new one. This server - faculty only- will be a web and web application server, but also a good compute server. It has 2 Intel Xeon scalable Gold processors 6230 up to 3.9GhZ, 384GB RAM, 80 threats and a raid array level 5.

To support GPU computing we bought in 2018 a smaller workstation with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti  GPU card. This machine will be used by faculty and students who need GPU capabilities.

Because of high demand, the school added another high-end server for our grad and undergrad students in Dec 2017. This server, datamath.asu.edu,  has 2 Xeon Gold cpus, 80 cores and 256GB RAM as well as a 11TB raid array for storage.

April 2016, the school bought a new high-end compute-server for our math and stats students, graduate as well as undergraduates.This server, compmath.asu.edu,  has 2 Xeon E5-2697 V3 cpus, 56 cores, and 128GB RAM as well as a 14TB raid array. This server is an addition to our current grad student server, mathpost.asu.edu,  which has 2 Xeon E5-2620 processors, 24 cores and 96GB RAM.

In December 2014, the school purchased a new top-of-the-line HPC Xeon E5-4657L server with 4 CPUs, 512gb RAM and 96 cores.The school also has a few high-performance compute servers, including an Intel i7-5960 16-core, 48GB RAM system, an Intel Xeon Phi server for high-performance computing using the Intel Phi coprocessor. In addition, there are several top of the line Linux workstations and servers, as well as an IMAC. These systems are housed in two separate computer labs, one with a dedicated 30 kVA UPS, and both with separate air conditioning units.

All machines as well as a high-resolution color laser printer, fast black and white laser printers, a high resolution scanner, and other peripherals are networked with 1GB ethernet. A large selection of high-performance computing software is available.

Added in Summer 2014 is a new teaching and research lab with 36 all-in-one Linux workstations, all math and science software is installed, and in Fall 2013 a new high-performance Linux teaching lab with 17 Linux workstations was established.These computers get replaced every 3 years.

In addition, we implemented GRID computing (distributed computing). We use HTCondor,  a specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. In Aug 2017 we purchased a new dedicated Condor server which has 2 Xeon E5-2650 V4 cpus, 256gb ram, and a 15TB raid array. We have about 60 computers in our grid.

Since Spring 2013 ASU is a member of eduroam, the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community.

Computing Facilities

The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences maintains undergraduate computer labs and graduate computer labs.

Lab
Open Hours (Spring 2024)
Operating System
Printers available

Undergraduate Lab

ECA 221 and ECA 216/217

Sunday     :    Closed

Monday    :    6:00pm - 10:00pm

Tuesday    :    6:00pm - 10:00pm

Wednesday    :   6:00pm - 10:00pm

Thursday    :    6:00pm - 10:00pm

Friday    :    Closed

Saturday    :    Closed

Linux  - all the standard Math software installed including:

Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, LaTeX, and R

One network printer

Graduate Printing Lab

WXLR 743

Open to math & stats graduate students

Network black and white printer

Network color printer

Research Lab

WXLR 742

Open to math & stats faculty and graduate students (remote access)

Several Linux servers

Network black and white printer

Graduate Lab

GWC 607

Open to math & stats faculty and graduate students

Main Linux server room with own UPS unit 

Several rack mounted Linux servers

Several Linux workstations 

1 Windows PCs

One black and white network printer

One color network printer

Besides the computer labs, each student office has at least one computer (Linux/Mac/Windows) for academic use. The school has a lightweight portable projectors, video camera and a few laptops for talks or class use.

Computing Help

We maintain the School’s computers and assist with any computing needs throughout the SoMSS community. 

General Help
Word Processing Help
Web Related Help

How to use the School's Computers

Faculty Help

Introduction to Linux (.pdf)

Common Linux Commands

Running R on SoMSS server from a Windows Client (.pdf)

Vi Lover's Homepage

GNU Screen

Bash Shell Guide

Linux Tutorial

How to install SSH in Windows machine

How to SSH to a Unix machine (Math)

How to install SSL VPN on a Linux machine

How to install SSL VPN on a Windows / Mac machine

How to use MobaXterm from windows to a Linux server

How to install TeX Live in Windows

What is WeBWork?

TI 83/84 Graphing Calculator Workshops Info
 

Manipulating Pdf Documents in Linux

How to install LaTeX for Macintosh/Windows

LaTeX Resources and Examples

How to make slides in LaTeX 

Math School Presentation Templates (beamer/ppt)

New Math School Header Download

How to Create Your Own Web Page Using SoMSS Template

Secure your Web Pages

 Configure New Outlook O365

For questions, software, accounts etc you can reach us at help.math@asu.edu