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Your UO computing account gives you access to one or more large timesharing systems. To help you choose the system that best suits your needs, we've described each of them in some detail below. For a quick overview, see the software chart at the end of this article.
Faculty and staff are eligible for accounts on either DARKWING or OREGON or both.
DARKWING. DARKWING is a large shared Sun Enterprise 5500 system running Solaris 2.7 (Sun's version of UNIX). For information on its configuration, see the article in this issue on page 2.
OREGON. OREGON is a large Compaq (formerly Digital Equipment Corporation) 7630 system running OpenVMS/AXP. OpenVMS/AXP is a unique operating system that is not based on UNIX; its commands are actually most reminiscent of MS DOS. It is the same operating system used on the university's administrative computer systems.
For most faculty and staff, either DARKWING or OREGON will work fine for routine email purposes and for serving typical web pages. Beyond that, system choice is primarily a matter of personal preference, as long as the software you want to use is installed on the system you pick (see the software chart on the following page).
If you do establish accounts for yourself on both DARKWING and OREGON, please be sure to routinely check your email on both systems, or forward your email from your less preferred account to your favorite account. Passwords and files are not shared between DARKWING and OREGON.
Undergraduate student accounts are automatically created on GLADSTONE. GLADSTONE is a Sun Enterprise 5500 machine and, like DARKWING, it runs Solaris 2.7, Sun's version of UNIX.
GLADSTONE accounts can be used for electronic mail and serving personal web pages. Beginning this year, we're also offering an expanded range of academic software on GLADSTONE, such as SAS and Mathematica.
Undergraduate students can also self-authorize themselves for an OREGON account if they prefer OpenVMS over UNIX, or if they simply want a second account to use as a backup.
Graduate students automatically have accounts created for them on DARKWING; however, if they wish, they can also self-authorize accounts on GLADSTONE and OREGON.
You may also see these other systems mentioned from time to time:
DONALD and DAISY. DONALD and DAISY are large Compaq administrative systems running OpenVMS/AXP. The primary application running on these systems is BANNER, an administrative application environment based on Oracle, a popular large system database. donald and DAISY share disk, printers and some other resources with OREGON, but access to donald and DAISY is restricted to staff members who are performing administrative tasks like grade processing and payroll.
ALPHA. ALPHA is the name for a cluster of five Compaq 500 workstations that (prior to DARKWING's upgrade) has been used exclusively for computationally intensive academic computing jobs. Machines in the ALPHAcluster run Compaq Tru64 UNIX (formerly DEC UNIX). Individual members of the ALPHAcluster have water-related names, such as hotspring, thunderstorm, river, downpour, and geyser.
ALPHA use will be gradually phased out through the end of 1999, at which time most commercial third party software will be moved from ALPHA onto DARKWING.
User directories on DARKWING are exported to the ALPHA systems, so you'll see all your files from DARKWING on the ALPHA workstations automatically, and any changes you make on either DARKWING or ALPHA will automatically be reflected on the other system.
However, because DARKWING runs a different version of UNIX than ALPHA, (Solaris vs. Tru64 UNIX), you cannot compile your program on one system and then run it on the other (i.e., if you want to run your FORTRAN program on DARKWING, compile it on DARKWING and run it on DARKWING).
No mail or web service is provided on the ALPHAcluster.
To log on to machines in the ALPHAcluster, use your normal DARKWING username and password (no special authentication is required for DARKWING users to be able to log in on those systems). Note that if you log in via ssh to the ALPHAcluster, you must designate a specific system (e.g., hotspring, thunderstorm, river, downpour or geyser) rather than logging in directly on ALPHA.uOREGON.edu (the cluster's generic name).
DOLLY. DOLLY is an experimental Beowulf cluster, one of two in the Oregon University System. It consists of 14 Pentium Pro nodes connected via a private fast ethernet network to a node controller, and runs the PVM and MPI message passing libraries on top of Redhat Linux. If you are a faculty member or graduate student interested in gaining access to DOLLY to run PVM or MPI codes, please contact Hans Kuhn (hak@darkwing.uoregon.edu) for more information.
The Computing Center does not currently provide accounts on any NT- based system.
In addition to your account on OREGON, DARKWING or GLADSTONE, you may also get a modem account and password so that you can dial in from off campus to the University's modem pool. Note that our modem pool is relatively small and is intended for use no more than a couple of hours a day per user (or 14 hours a week). If you need dedicated or near dedicated access, you will want to contact a commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP). One list of ISPs is available at http://www.thelist.com/
If you are teaching an undergraduate class and your students need access to software available only on DARKWING, temporary accounts (so-called "ST" student accounts) can be created for their use. The course instructor should contact Connie French, the Computing Center accounts clerk, for more information about doing this. If you are a department or university-recognized institute, lab, or organization, you can arrange for a departmental account. Such accounts are offered solely to provide an authoritative and unchanging home for departmental web pages and official departmental email, and must be officially requested by the person responsible for the account. Modem accounts will not be created for departmental userids.
Finally, please note that ALL use of university computing resources is subject to the university's Acceptable Use Policy, which is available in printed format from the Computing Center Documents Room (Room 205), or online at http://cc.uoregon.edu/acceptableuse.html
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