Facilities for X- Ray Crystallography
(Located in 623 WBSB)

We have a fully equipped X-ray laboratory that is maintained as a departmental facility and staffed by a full-time manager. Equipment includes:

• Three Rigaku RU-200 rotating anode X-ray generators
• Two R-AXIS IV image plate detectors with mirrors
• R-AXIS II image plate detector with mirrors
• Siemens multiwire detector
• Three SGI computers and one PC to run the data collection devices
• A data mirror archive server with two DVD-R writers for backups
• Cryo-cooling on all detectors
• Constant temperature room for crystal growth

Computer Resources

The groups in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry share a departmental computing facility staffed by a full-time systems manager. The equipment includes a 30 node GNU/Linux cluster. Each node contains two 64 bit Opteron processors and there are also 5 computational workstations containing 4 Opteron CPUs each. Our file servers have a combined capacity of 3.9 terabytes, and we have a second cluster comprising 8 CPUs for email and computational work. Addtionally, there are over 24 workstations, a Tektronix Phaser 740 color laser printer, several black and white laser printers, and an HP 4650dn Color LaserJet printer.