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Computing Resources
The Data Services Laboratory (DSL) of the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) consists of an area (room 3207 on the 3rd floor of Shands Teaching Hospital) with five Intel-based personal computers and two Sun UNIX servers. The operating system for the Intel-based computers is Windows 2000.

A flexible and complete set of software packages is installed on these machines, including the following:
 
Software
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Publisher)
  • Netscape Navigator and Messenger 4.73 (Internet access and email)
  • McAfee VirusScan 7.0
  • Prophet 6.0 (statistical software)
  • SAS System ver 9.0 for Windows (statistical software)
  • DBMS/COPY (data conversion software - 1 License)
  • nQuery (sample size/power software - 1 License)
  • Hummingbird Exceed (X-terminal emulator) allows users to connect to and run server-based software including UNIX SAS
  • GIMP Imaging software
  • Acrobat Reader 5.0 (read PDF Files)
  • Roxio Easy CD Creator 5
  • WinZip (compress/decompress files)
  • SSH Client
  • Endnote (reference software)
  • Real Player & Windows Media Player
 
Hardware

    1. Dell PCs - Qty 5

  • Pentium-4, 2.8 GHz
  • 2GB RAM
  • CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive
  • Iomega 250 MB Zip Drive
  • Harman/Kardon Speakers

    2. Printers - Qty 2

  • Lexmark C750 Color Laser Printer
Specifications:
a. 20 ppm monochrome and less than 20 seconds time to first color page
b. True 1200 x 1200 dpi and 2400 image quality for best color images and business graphics
c. 60,000 page per month maximum duty cycle for short-run custom production printing
d. 3 levels of color and monochrome toner saver
e. Easy-to-replace high-yield, single-element print cartridges for each color
 
  • Lexmark T632
Specifications:
a. 40 pages per minute
b. 1200 x 1200 dpi
c. PCL 6 Emulation, Personal Printer Data Stream (PPDS), PostScript 3 Emulation, PDF 1.2, 1.3
d. 500 Sheet Capacity
 
    3. HP Scanjet 3500c Scanner
Specifications:
Maximum Scan size: 8.5 x 11.7 in
Scan Speed: 50 secs, OCR letter-size black and white text to MS Word; 38 secs, 4 x 6 inch color photo to MS Word; 27 secs, black-and-white bitmap to MS Word
Software included: HP Photo and Imaging software, IRIS OCR, ReadIRIS Pro 7.5, ReadIRIS Pro 7.5 including Arabic OCR , Hemera Jigsaw Puzzler and CD Designs Creator , Hemera Greeting Card Creator
 
Our primary servers are UNIX-based Sun servers. They provide access to network resources including email, Internet and database services, as well as access to user's home file space. 12/24 GB DAT and 40/80 DLT tape backup systems are in place to ensure data integrity, and servers are protected from power failures via uniterruptable power supplies (UPS).

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