Computing Laboratory

Nypro Institute . Nypro Institute is the corporate university of Nypro Inc., providing educational opportunities to employees, customers, and the general public. Nypro Institute s headquarters are located in Clinton, Massachusetts, and feature a state-of-the-sdence computer laboratory, a training resource library, and individual multimedia learning centers. 

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Introduction of a Computational Laboratory into the Physical Chemistry Curriculum... 

The prerequisites for the course include two years of chemistry, including organic, analytical, and an introductory inorganic chemistry course, one year of calculus-based physics, three terms of calculus, and introduction to differential equations usually taken concurrently. Most students take the computational laboratory concurrent with the physical chemistry lecture course covering... 

Scientific method The research procedures for conducting a scientific investigation, which involves laboratory or held observations, the development of multiple hypotheses to explain the observations, and the testing of the hypotheses with computers, laboratory measurements and experiments, and/or held research. The inveshgahon may result in none, one, several, or many of the hypotheses being verihed as plausible explanahons. If a hypothesis is repeatedly shown to be a reliable explanahon and can actually make reasonably accurate predichons, it becomes a theory. 

The event shown in Figure 3.23 was observed in a computer laboratory at a university. Normally, neutral voltage should be within 0.5 V with respect to the ground. This is because in a four-wire power distribution system the neutral of the power source... 

FIGURE 3.23 Large neutral voltage swings responsible for problems in a university computer laboratory. 

Current address Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Laboratory, Wilhelm Hall, Ames, IA 50011 (Electronic mail rickyk scl.ameslab.gov)... 

Numerical calculations were carried out at the Super Computer Laboratory, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University and the Kyoto University Data Processing Center. This work is partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists (13740395) from Japan Society for the Promotion... 

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Thomas L.H., Elliptic Problems in Linear Difference Equations over a Network, Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, Columbia University, New York (1949)... 

Prof. Dr. Stephen W. Feldberg Oxford University Computing Laboratory SWF Wolfson Building ... 

The recent growth of computer resources in Japan is quite remarkable. Reduction in the cost of LSI has enabled the vendors to offer large CPU memories for low prices, inconceivable a few years ago, resulting in the revolutionary development of computer laboratories in universities and institutes. 

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The authors would like to thank RobCoalson, E)erek Lindsay, Jan Northby, Lawrence Pratt, and Keith McDowell for stimulating discussions on much of the research described in this paper. Work at the University of Rhode Island was supported in part by grants from Research Corporation, The University of Rhode Island Academic Computer Center, and The University of Rhode Island Engineering Computer Laboratory. The authors would like to thank Margaret Doll for expert assistance in the preparation of this manuscript. 

Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures, http //icl.cs.utk.edu/magma (Accessed March 6, 2010). 

G. Avdelas and T.E. Simos, Technical University of Crete, Applied Mathematics and Computers Laboratory, Technical Report 1/1995. 

Virtual Computational Laboratory, VCCLAB In e-Dragon, 13.05.2010, Available from http / / www.vcclab. org... 

As we have seen, the availability of software and hardware to do molecular mechanics, quantum chemistry, and molecular dynamics is not the problem. How to incorporate this software into the curriculum is the problem. But more about that later. One could argue that cost is the problem. But that is only partly true. Compared to the cost of chemistry instrumentation such as FTIR, GC-mass spectrometry, and high field NMR, the financial implications of setting up a state-of-the-art computational facility are not excessive. However, as anyone who has been involved in setting up either an instrumental laboratory or a computational laboratory can tell you, there are many hidden costs. Maintenance of the hardware and software and of the network to link the various computers and printers requires a major investment of time and money. 

What we will attempt to do is to provide background to some topics that are presently covered in the curriculum and to show how this is implemented at our respective institutions. We do, however, make this observation. Even the simplest exercise, at whatever level, will result in severe student frustration if no assistance is available at specified hours in remote computing laboratories. Just as we need to provide supervision in traditional experimental laboratories, for safety reasons, we also will need to provide at least intermittent supervision in computational laboratories, for (mental) safety reasons. 

We carry out the Stella exercises by making a one-hour presentation in a campus computer laboratory facility. During that hour the students are introduced to the Macintosh user interface, some simple kinetic concepts, and the use of Stella to model those concepts. Subsequent to that introduction the students are given a series of six exercises that they complete over a period of several weeks, while kinetics and equilibrium concepts are covered in the classroom work. These exercises need to be turned in to the instructor this work is treated as part of their classroom activities. 

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