School of Earth Sciences Computing Resources
- High performance, high capacity network file server for entire School of Earth Sciences.
- Individuals each have a 10 Gigabyte "home share".
- Research groups can get large shares to store data and analyses.
- Web server for entire School of Earth Sciences -
hosts School, department, research and personal sites.
- Also provides anonymous ftp service for sharing files with outside
colleagues.
- Network use policies for the School of Earth Sciences.
- Tips for securing your computer on the network.
- Connect a computer or printer to the Earth Sciences network.
- Configure a computer to work on the network.
- Overview of Network Services.
- Overview of the Earth Sciences network architecture.
- The School maintains computer labs in Mitchell Earth Sciences.
- Mitchell A65 teaching cluster.
- Mitchell A59 G.R.I.D. cluster for graphics and research.
- Operated by the School as a shared facility.
- Provides high performance multiprocessor and cluster systems for
computationally intensive research.
- Sponsors courses and workshops in cluster programming.
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It is crucial that you keep all of your important files backed-up in one form
or another in case your computer is stolen, damaged, or has its memory erased
as result of a virus or hacker attack.
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Free
computer backup services are available in the School.
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The School of Earth Sciences automatically configures supported computers
to use BigFix power management and encourages its use on personally-owned
computers to save energy.
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The School of Earth Sciences has a self-service video conferencing facility
in the Green Earth Sciences conference room 361.
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University licensed software, computer clusters, multi-media technology
labs, and time-sharing computing, plus hardware and software support.