The School of Meteorology (SoM) moved into National Weather Center (NWC), located on the southeast corner of the campus, on July 7, 2006. Also housed in the NWC are the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), the Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS), and the college Research Computer Services (RCS).

Computing resources for the SoM support the education and research missions of the department. The computing group is staffed with one full time systems administrator and two student helpers. The computing group helps maintain the main SoM computing servers which host e-mail, web, file and data archives. Software resources for the department include weather display software (such as GEMPAK and IDV), statistical software (S-Plus, Matlab) and other traditional software packages (MS Office, Adobe, etc). Students are exposed to many different operating systems (OS) and hardware. Supported operating systems include Mac OS X, Linux (Red Hat, Fedora), FreeBSD, and MS Windows XP.

Public computing labs are available for all students with access to the SoM server resources. Much of the computing resources for research such as hardware and any addition software are supplied by the individual research groups but the staff of the SoM computing group supplies technical support. This tech support ranges from direct system administration, training graduate students (and faculty) to administer their own systems as general computing issues as they arise.

Public-access computing facilities in the School of Meteorology include the following:

Server Machine Room (NWC 3400)
  • AMD Operton Dual Proc e-mail server (text, POP, webmail)
  • Apple Xserver and Xraid nearly 3 terabytes user space
  • 2 AMD Weather Data servers
    • Using Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM)
    • Member of Unidata Internet Data Delivery (IDD)
  • Pentium Dual Processor Web Server
  • NAS File server for use of course and research related data sets
    • 5 Terabytes Storage
  • 2 Dual Processor AMD Opteron process servers
  • 1 AMD Dual Processor Webserver/Process server for SoM IT course
  • 1 AMD quad processor OWL/HOOT Process server

Student Computer Lab/Classroom (NWC 5720)
  • 24 AMD Opteron processors running Fedora Core Linux
  • HP LaserJet 4350

Student Computer Lab (NWC 5402)
  • Twelve 20 inch Apple iMac computers
  • HP LaserJet 4350

Student Weather Center (NWC 5401)
  • Three study rooms, each with a 20 inch iMac
  • OWL operations office
    • 1 iMac and 1 Apple G5 computers
    • 1 Dell process server (HOOT Project)

Auxiliary Computer Lab (NWC 5630)
  • 2 Apple G5 workstations
  • HP ColorJet 4600
  • HP LaserJet 2100
  • HP document scanner