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Facilities and Equipment

The University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (UH/IFA), has a history of unique and excellent imaging system development, and facilities for providing support of telescope, detector, and optical system development. The unique optical research lab at the University of Hawaii Advanced Technology Research Center on Maui has a 20 optical meter path and houses state of the art equipment for fabricating modeling and evaluating modern imaging instrumentation. Over $3M of advanced optical instrumentation and test equipment is available. ATRC Facilities include offices, workshops, imaging and detector development laboratories and extensive computer and supercomputer facilities. The newly commissioned C7 inch coelostat facility is currently in use for testing and development of instrumentation. Other IFA ATRC facilities include state of the art equipment for fabricating and evaluating modern imaging instrumentation including a mechanical and electronic design shop including 3-d modeling capability, finite element structural modeling, thermo-mechanical optics modeling, ZEMAX optical design, mechanical CAD, optical metrology equipment, electron beam coating chamber, a Class 10,000 optical instrument assembly and chemistry lab room (under construction). Other IFA assets include a welding shop, full machine shop with over 2M$ of fabrication instruments including 5-axis NC mill, NC lathe, precision micro mill, wire EDM cutter and conventional large lathe and milling capabilities.

Jotun Linux Cluster

The ATRC is the home of the Jotun Linux Cluster which is solely owned and operated by the IfA. It consists of 42 nodes with 2 AMD Opteron 2220 (2.8 Ghz) Dual Core Processors (4 Processor Cores). Each node has 8.0 GB of DDRII memory and 80 GB Hard drive. The Cluster is available to staff and visitors to the IfA.