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GIS Lab
Rotch Library, building 7-238
Contact Us
gishelp@mit.edu
There are a variety of facilities for working on GIS projects around the MIT campus, provided by the MIT Libraries, IS&T, OEIT, and individual departments.
MIT GIS Laboratory
Rotch Library (7-238)
The GIS Lab in Rotch Library provides indvidual user assistance during regular lab hours and is open for use during Rotch Library operating hours. The GIS Lab has 6 computers (3 running WinAthena, 3 running Windows OS) available with the following specs:
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 video card
3 Ghz processor
146 GB SAS Hard Drive
dual 19” visible ultrasharp flat panel screens with adjustable heights
Athena Clusters
Athena is MIT's UNIX-based campus-wide academic computing facility. Students, faculty, and staff can use over 500 workstations provided through Athena to access software programs and data files. ESRI's ArcExplorer, ArcView and ArcInfo, and PCI Geomatica are available on the Athena machines. (ArcGIS has not been developed for UNIX by ESRI, hence it is not available on Athena.) For more infomation please visit http://web.mit.edu/arcinfo/www/home.html For information about loading GIS software on an athena machine go to: http://web.mit.edu/acs/www/simulation.html#geo. A full table of applications available on Athena can be found at http://web.mit.edu/acs/www/table.htmlRunning ArcGIS on your personal computer
Fill out the online ESRI GIS
software order form. (You will need MIT certificates to access
this page.) If you need to work with ArcGIS from off-campus you will either need to set up a VPN connection or obtain a dongle (email dsheehan@mit.edu - note, there may be a fee for purchase). Installation instructions are available to help guide you. ArcGIS does not run on the MAC OS but
it can be run on Macintosh over the network through the citrix server http://citrix.mit.edu/staging.
ESRI ArcGIS System Requirements
FAQ: Does ESRI support 64-bit processors with ArcGIS products?
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