The computing laboratory is mainly used for the teaching of undergraduate
courses in Mathematics and we currently have 60 Dell Pentium-4 3.2 GHz PCs
in the lab.
All first year students are taught to use computational software like
Matlab and Mathematica in the laboratory. Some senior courses in applied
and/or computational mathematics are also taught there.
Opening Hours (2008-2009 2nd semester)
The computer laboratory is opened 24-hours everyday.
Monday 12:00 noon - 2:30 p.m. is reserved for MAT2072A/B
Wednesday 2:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. is reserved for MAT2072A/B
Laboratory guidelines
The Laboratory is opened for Mathematics Major students ONLY. The computers must only be used in connection with valid mathematics courses in an efficient & non-wasteful manner and never be used for commercial purposes.
ALL users must observe the lab regulations (which is posted on the door at the entrance) and help to make the computer lab a safety and comfortable environment for everyone to use.
Any user who violates the guidelines and regulations will result in his/her privileges of using the Laboratory being suspended.
All users have the responsibility to report :
system or hardware failure ;
any abuse usage of the computer facilities ;
any form of breaking the computer security system ;
to the system administrators (LSB232B) directly.
Before leaving, please LOGOFF/RESTART instead of SHUTDOWN from the system.
Notes for the users
Do NOT turn off the air-conditioners:
We frequently found that the air-conditioners of our Computing Lab are (Rm 232A-C) turned off. Please do NOT turned off them under any circumstance. If the air-conditioners are found out of order, water dropping for example, please report to the General
Office (Rm 220, LSB) as soon as possible.
If you feel cool, please put more clothes before going to the Lab. The reason is simple. Computer equipments required to work under a certain temperature or their serving duration will be much shortened.
Computer Labs are always in low temperature. Try to go to Pi Chiu Computer Center to verify yourself. If you are still confused, try to find the answer why your Pentium required a cooling-fan sticked on it.
Do NOT let the computer burns the monitor:
You may notice that all the computer in our Lab are installed with a nice screen saver. The reason for us to do so is simply because we don't want the monitors to be burned. If you find a monitor always display some unclear things (called "ghost image" tec
hnically) on screen no matter what the contents of your working environment is, it means the monitor has been burned.
From time to time, we found some of you leave the monitor with the restart screen on it. This screen (which tells you to restart the computer by clicking on a button) will only appear on the screen after selecting "Shut Down" from the "Special" menu. H
owever, perhaps you haven't noticed that this restart screen will be shown on the monitor FOREVER until someone comes to restart the computer or turn it off PHYSICALLY. The monitor will be hurt seriously as a result.
Therefore, if you are hurry enough and have no time to switched off the computer (select "Shut Down" will NOT turn off the computer automatically !), please just log out yourself from the computer and let the screen-saver protect the monitor.
Do NOT forget to turn on the ventilators:
Our Computing Lab is installed with ventilators. They installed for the purpose of decreasing the density of O3, CO and CO2 which are released by the Laser Printers and are hazardous to our health.
If you forget to turn on them, people working in the room will be suffered. It is like the case that you use a gas-driven water heater at your bathroom and forget to open the windows.