The Department of Geoinformatics and Applied Computer Science is the youngest and quickly expanding administrative unit of the Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection.
In 2003 new discipline: Applied Computer Science on Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmenatl Protection was created. New department, which join infromatical issues of scientific research, was needed to create. The new department was named Department of Informatics in Earth’s Science. Head of the department is prof. Andrzej Leśniak.
In 2006 department changed its name to Department of Geoinformatics and Applied Computer Science. Change was coused of faculty reorganization.
The Department assembles prominent scientific and didactic staff who specialize in emerging technologies and scientific issues connected with widely understanding computer science in the Earth’s and environmental sciences. Research workers are members of international reputable scientific and industrial organizations, for example: EAGE, IEEE, SPE.
The Department of Geoinformatics and Applied Computer Science has an air-conditioned computer laboratory with 30 posts and a computer-based measurement system laboratory. The Department has a modern IBM Blade-type server system. The server system is composed of 14 dedicated machines, every machine has two quad-core processors Intel type and 16GB of RAM memory. They are connected to fast internal Ethernet network, which allows for very efficient cooperation of all servers. Moreover, the Department has three special graphic stations of Blade server type equipped with modern graphic cards NVIDIA Quadro that can carry out 80 Gflop floating-point operations per second. In connection with a cluster of PC computers created on the basis of existing computer laboratories, the available computational speed is sufficient for efficient processing of complicated computational problems, that are often met in the Earth sciences.
The Department’s scientific and didactic infrastructure guarantees students to obtain knowledge at the highest world level, and researches and students to carry on challenging research and scientific projects.