Computer facilities in the laboratory of include 10 PC computers of Pentium II/III vintage and a Mac 7500 linked together via the University fiber-optic backbone to form a web-based local area network.   

The facility has a 1Gbyte line entering the labs and all of the equipment is routed together at a 100Mhz bandwidth.  NIH funding has been recently obtained to develop a LAN system linking the HPLC systems and the ICP-MS instruments for seamless data transfer and archiving to a one Terabyte storage system with a web-based searchable database. 

Automatic backup will be accomplished via a DVD jukebox.  An associated office, fully integrated into the LAN system and the file, web and application servers is used by students, technicians and postdoctoral fellows to undertake data reduction and analysis.