CENPA Instrument Shop |
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Our instrument shop is manned by two highly skilled instrument makers with decades of experience working in the university and research environments. The shop equipment is kept up to date as evidenced by the recent addition of a CNC mill and CNC lathe. The instrument makers interact with students, staff, and faculty on a daily basis providing instruction on how to design physically realizable devices and how to correctly document design changes. In this sense it is an instructional facility as well as a shop facility.
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Hendrik Simons
(206) 543-4083
hksimons@uw.edu
Jim Elms
(206) 543-4083
elmartin@u.washington.edu
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CENPA Student Shop |
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The student shop is headed by an instrument maker who himself does small machining jobs but more importantly provides safety training and instruction to students, staff, and faculty on the operation of a wide variety of machine tools.
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David Hyde
(206) 543-4080
drhco2@uw.edu
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NPL Computing Center |
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The NPL Data Center (NPLDC) previously contained a single high performance cluster, ATHENA, and now provides the infrastructure to multiple clusters and department appliances. The ATHENA high performance computing (HPC) cluster has evolved into multiple smaller computational clusters. One of these clusters, CENPA, currently runs a Rocks 5.3 cluster which provides computing power to CENPA faculty and students. We are investigating the possibility of scaling the cluster to a hybrid cloud by leveraging publicly available clouds resources. In addition, NPLDC supports a wide range of server appliances: virtual web/wiki/gateway servers, SQL servers, file servers, backup servers, shared storage arrays and security appliances.
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Gary Holman
(206) 543-9790
holman@uw.edu
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CENPA Electronics Shop |
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The CENPA electronics shop provides modern surface-mount technology and miniature cable manufacturing equipment on site and in appropriately clean areas. The shop continues to do custom design work for specialty pre-amps as well as dedicated multichannel DAQ systems and contracts with outside vendors to efficiently produce custom printed circuit boards for these projects in a cost-effective manner. The shop also interacts with the on-campus Washington Technology Center taking advantage of much of the capital-intensive, high-tech equipment there that is more effectively used as a cost-shared facility. The electronics shop staff also provides training for students and other staff members so that they may quickly and easily design, build, and repair their own small projects.
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Tim Van Wechel
(206) 616-3060
timvanw@uw.edu
David Peterson
(206) 543-4056
dp33@uw.edu
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