Located in the brand new Biotechnology, Science, and Engineering building (BSE 3.114) in the scenic southeast corner of UTSA's 1604 campus, the Computational Biology Initiative's core facility contains our staff offices and a small multi-purpose computer lab space. The lab is suitable for general computer use, with eight Sun Ultra 20 workstations, a powerful Dell Precision 870 workstation, and a dual processor G5. The Ultra 20 workstations all run Solaris 10, Windows XP Pro, and RedHat Enterprise Linux 4. The Dell is a powerful 64 bit computational workstation running Windows XP 64 and sporting 8G of RAM, and is our current user favorite. All machines run under a single common login and provide direct access to the facility’s 10TB of fully backed up storage.

As well as supporting the day to day computational needs of users, the room is also quite suitable for small workshops or software tutorials. CBI has recently purchased a state of the art multimedia projection system which will make the space even more attractive for meetings, classes, and other gatherings.