Ingredients
The lab includes a Sun Ultral UNIX workstation with an exabyte tape drive, laser printer, 9 gigabyte disk for spectroscopic data reduction and analysis, as well as a new color laser printer. The Sun workstation operates under Solaris, and software includes IRAF (Image Redution and Analysis Facility; written and made available by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories), ATLAS9 (written by Robert Kurucz, Harvard, and made available through the CCP7 by Michael Lemke), and LINFOR and RATES (spectum synthesis and NLTE programs written at Kiel Universitaets, Germany, and also made available by Michael Lemke), as well as the standard necessary manuscript writing and plotting packages, e.g., TEX, LaTeX, VI, and MONGO.

We also have three 2001 POGO PC's running Red Hat Linux (thanks to Barron Koralesky), one of which is currently located up in the lab in Olin-Rice 404. Linux rocks! IRAF is currently running under Linux, as well as STSDAS, TEX, LaTex, MONGO, LINFOR, and RATES (also thanks to Michael Lemke). These machines are networked, cross-mounted, and have a host of peripherals.