Facilities and Resources
KIPAC Facilities
For more information on KIPAC's locations on the Stanford campus and at SLAC National Laboratory, please see our Getting Here page.
Both on campus and at SLAC, KIPAC members make use of a variety of office, computing, and laboratory spaces. For questions about specific lab space and equipment, please see relevant project pages and associated contact information.
Computing Resources
The KIPAC community includes Stanford Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers as well as many outside collaborators. Access and effective use of computational resources is central to nearly all scientific activities at KIPAC. These include theoretical simulations, data analysis, and experimental simulations, all of which call for CPU, storage, and network infrastructure.
KIPAC researchers have access to parallel computing clusters, large memory machines, parallel file systems, and visualization capabilities. We have central software installations, licensed packages, network disk storage, and backup. We have substantial allocations at the Stanford Research Computing Center and the SLAC Shared Science Data Facility (S3DF), and KIPAC members also can apply for access to the new Marlowe GPU machine. The resources and information needed to get started on these systems are available at our KIPAC computing repository.
Magellan Telescope Access
Through an agreement with Carnegie Observatories, KIPAC members have access to a certain number of observing nights each year. KIPAC manages access to this time through merit review of proposals submitted semi-annually (in October and April) and reviewed by the KIPAC Magellan Time Allocation Committee (Magellan TAC).
While members may choose to visit the site in person for their observing program, KIPAC also maintains a remote observing room in its campus location, the Physics and Astrophysics Building.