Design Specification for a Practical Computational Chemistry Lab.

1. Student Laptop (not yet Netbook)
   • Lightweight model, with 7 hour battery life and 13" (dockable to 24") screen
   • Local computational functionality, via an ...
   • authenticated online presence (Wired, WiFi) to a ...
2. Wiki front end, providing ...
   • (Multi-authored, including student) documentation, with ...
   • Links to laboratory resources, and acting as a ...
   • Student e-lab notebook ⇔ reports
3. Access to a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Portal
   • SCAN (Supercomputing at nite) and
   • HPC dedicated nodes (daytime)
4. Digital Repository depositions
5. Feeding Student e-lab notebooks ⇔ reports
6. Wiki report grading (discussion)