Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL)
Room 137, Rockefeller Library
To reserve the DSL for a class or event, see the relevant section of the CDS Handbook.
Hardware specification
A wall-sized display and video switcher:
- Twelve NEC X551UN 55in. thin-bezel LED monitors (1920×1080) with wall-mount system custom made by Ambient Sound
- Crestron DM-MD32X32 Digital Media matrix switcher
- Fourteen Crestron DM-TX-200-C-2G WALL DigitalMedia 8G+ transmitters
- Crestron TPMC-V15-TILT-B touchscreen
- Crestron AV2 dual-bus control processor
A high-performance research computer:
- Model: Dell Precision T7600
- Operating system: Windows 7
- Processor: Dual Six Core XEON (2.2GHz, 7.2 GT/s)
- Memory: 32GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory, 1600MHz, ECC (4 x 8GB DIMMs)
- Boot (OS) Hard Drive: 256 GB,2.5″ SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
- Data drive: 2 × 2TB (7200 RPM 3.5″ SATA 6Gb/S Hard Drive) in a RAID 1 configuration
- Graphics cards: 2 × AMD FirePro W600 graphic cards, each with six 1920×1080 outputs to drive the 12 display wall monitors
- Software: We are happy to install most software on demand.
Currently, our software offerings include: Google Earth, ArcGIS, Maple, Mathematica, Kaleidagraph, MATLAB, SEASR, Processing, Adobe Design Suite, Stata, Tecplot, Sigmaplot, Paraview, Blender.
Two computers with touch-enabled monitors on portable carts
- Two Panasonic 50in. TH-50PF30U plasma displays with TY-TP50P30K dual-touch overlay
- Two Da-lite MM5C-39FS rolling video conferencing carts
The display wall, video switcher, and videoconferencing system were installed by Ambient Sound
If you have any questions contact us at digital-scholarship-lab@brown.edu