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The Facilities

     The Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program occupies Sayre Hall on Princeton’s Forrestal Campus (located about 3 miles from the main University Campus). Sayre hall is home to a portion of the AOS Program’s students and faculty, as well as the administrative offices. Across the street from Sayre Hall, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a high level of collaboration with the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program and is home to the majority of the AOS Program’s students and faculty.

     All student's have access to the main GFDL computing facility which includes a cluster of massively-parallel SGI Origin 3800 computers with a total of 1408 processors. Access to the supercomputer is through a network of SGI and Linux workstations. In addition, the AOS Program has its own computer network with a number of workstations. The AOS facilities in Sayre Hall are connected to Princeton University's computing center.