The School is located in a spacious, purpose-designed building which has been upgraded to modern specifications and provides excellent support and facilities for research. Technical support is provided by the School's well-equipped and very skillfully staffed electronics and mechanical workshops and by specialist research technicians. A Principal Experimental Officer supports the Biomedical Physics Group and a Senior Experimental Officer provides high-level IT support for the School.
Other School services include a helium liquefier producing 55,000 liquid litres of helium per year, nitrogen liquefiers, materials processing and clean rooms. High-speed networking has been installed throughout the School, and following a £2M grant from HEFCE's Joint Research Equipment Initiative, the School's computing facilities are now amongst the most powerful in the UK.
Our radiography students can put theory into practice after the installation of a state-of-the-art X-ray room. The room is fitted out with around £200,000 worth of new equipment including a Computed Radiography System. Take a tour.
New SRIF2 funded facilities
As part of our long term research strategy we now have two new SRIF2 funded facilities, an ultrafast laser facility and a nano-fabrication facility. These new laboratories will allow us to build a better understanding behind new photonic and magnetic materials. New supercomputer
In December 2007, Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) installed a large Altix ICE 8200 High Performance Computer system at the University of Exeter. The system has 1280 Intel compute cores (160 nodes each with 2 quad-core chips and Infiniband interconnect). Exeter Astrophysics is one of the main users of the facility, using it to perform simulations of star and planet formation.