Facilities
Civil Engineering provides access to an extensive range of facilities to both Undergraduate and Postgraduate students. These include a number of experimental laboratories and leading computational facilities.Experimental Facilities
Experimental facilities are used for both undergraduate teaching and research purposes. These include:
- Heavy structures testing laboratory
- Structural mechanics teaching laboratory
- Concrete testing laboratory
- Soil mechanics laboratory
- Fluid mechanics laboratory
Computational Facilities
High Performance Computing
The School of Engineering has always maintained state-of-the-art computing facilities in order to support the leading edge research in the area of computational engineering. All of these facilities here are available to researchers within the centre and for contract work to external clients.
Linux Cluster
The Linux cluster was installed in order to provide a performance increase for large parallel applications. It currently comprises:
- 260 AMD Opteron 64-bit processor cores
- Memory ranging from 2Gb - 8Gb per node
- Myrinet interconnect for maximum communication performance
