The following machines are publicly available for all students with CS accounts:
Note: We advise use of the "titans" for remote work/shell servers. Their physical location (locked/environmentally conditioned machine room) leads to improved reliability and availability, and their hardware resources are greater than any several workstation class machines combined. These are the machines we use ourselves when we need a shell server.
The Apple workstations are fully integrated with the departmental home directory and authentication infrastructure, and you may use them locally via the GUI or remotely via ssh.
In the Computer Science Machine Room, only available via ssh:
"Titans" -- x86_64 servers (Dual Quad Core CPUs, 8GB RAM) running 32-bit RHEL 5* with PAE kernels:
- coeus (129.64.2.150)
- themis (129.64.2.151)
AMD64 WorkStations running 32-bit RHEL5*:
In the Vertica Lounge (Volen 104), also available via ssh:
27" iMacs running 10.6.x:
- canticle (129.64.2.90)
- epigram (129.64.2.91)
- gnomic (129.64.2.92)
- idyll (129.64.2.93)
- lament (129.64.2.94)
- rondeau (129.64.2.95)
- sestina (129.64.2.96)
- threnody (129.64.2.97)
- villanelle (129.64.2.98)
In the conference room (Volen 118), also available via ssh:
AMD64 WorkStations running 32-bit RHEL 5*:
- brontes (129.64.3.89)
- steropes (129.64.3.92)
- telemus (129.64.3.93)
*Note regarding OS/CPU architecture mismatch:
Please note that we currently install 32 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux on all public PC workstations and shell servers, regardless of whether the machine's hardware is 32 or 64 bit. This is done to ensure full binary compatibility across all student machines, eg: That a homework assignment compiled or tested on one machine will run or behave similarly on any other machine. This policy will likely be reversed at the end of the Fall 2011 term, as most of the existing 386/32-bit CPU machines have already been retired and replaced with machines sporting 64 bit CPUs. In the meantime, machines with more than 4GB of RAM and the requisite hardware features are automatically installed with PAE kernels to ensure that all physical RAM is available for use, even if any given process cannot address more than 4GB of RAM at once.