DataWorks Analysis and Visualization Lab
Getchell Library Room 8B

Hours

Staff assistance is usually available between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM Monday through Friday.  Assistance is not available on weekends nor on university holidays.

The Lab is available all hours that Getchell Library is open regardless of staffing. The combination to unlock the Lab is: hit 1 and 5 on the keypad simultaneously, then hit 3.  Accessing computers in the lab requires a UNR NetID and password.  You may ask for assistance at the Information or Help desks in Getchell Library, or create a NetID using the online account form.

Lab Phone: 775-682-7955 Assistance when we're not here? Contact:
Steve Young (Lib 8a, 682-7238)
Tod Colegrove (Lib 8a, 682-5644)
Duncan Aldrich (Lib 3a, 682-5569)
Gregg Stefanelli (Lib 123, 682-5673)

Printing 
Printing on standard letter and legal size paper requires that you have a WolfBucks debit account which may be purchased at the Circulation desk in Getchell Library.  Printing on the standard HP LaserJet cost 10 cents per page. Printing on the color HP LaserJet costs 50 cents per page.

Poster Printing AND Laminating
42 inch wide printers and laminators are available for printing and laminating posters, maps, and other items (only at times the lab is staffed). The price of poster size printouts and lamination is currently:

$2.35 per linear foot for 36 inch wide bright white paper prints
$2.50 per linear foot for 42 inch wide bright white paper prints
$4.35 per linear foot for photo quality paper prints
$7.60 per linear foot for 36 inch wide vinyl material

$2.85 per linear foot for lamination

How-To (Help on several FAQs)
Batch Resize Images using PhotoShop
Print Double-Sided on the HP ColorLaserJet
Access a Network Share on Macs in the DML
Scale Print Poster Paper from Word

Mapping to Homework files on Magellan.geography.unr.edu
Mapping to ArcView and other homework files on Magellan in the Geography GIS lab is available as the Z: drive on DataWorks lab PCs.  Z: will work automatically when you log on to the PC using your NetID.

Computer Systems Available in the Visualization Lab
14 Dell Precision Workstations with dual 2.8 GHz XEON processors, Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2000 SP4, 2GB of RAM, ATI Fire GL(258Mb RAM) dual monitor capable display adapter board. U320 high performance  SCSI disks. 16xDVD, DVD+R\CD combo writer, Iomega Zip 250, 19" high resolution flat panel display.

Windows Server 2003\Citrix Presentation Server Cluster.
Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers each with dual 3.6 XEON GHz processors, 8GB RAM, PERC4 RAID controller with 256MB RAM onboard. 5 15,000 RPM SCSI U160 high performance disk drives in a RAID 5 configuration for 36 GB of local storage.  Presentation Server allows users to run Windows applications hosted on Windows servers using a simple web browser as a client.  See https://apollo.library.unr.edu/.

Network Attached Storage(NAS)   2 Dell PowerVault 775 enterprise network attached storage systems provide a 4TB distributed file system (ntDFS) for redundant storage of large datasets.   The DFS is easily accessible from anywhere on campus using your NetID.

Other Equipment
Pioneer DVD-R Writer, Kangaru CD-ROM duplicator, HP LaserJet 5M Color Printer, HP DesignJet 500PS 42 inch large format printer.

Software
ArcView 3.3, ArcInfo 8, ArcMap 9, ArcGIS 9, IDL, ENVI,  Maple6, Mathematica 5, webMathematica, Mathcad, MatlabR12, QSR NUD*IST, SAS, SPSS (see comprehensive list)