Large Timesharing Systems at the UO

faculty/staff | undergrads | grad students | administrative systems | dialin | departmental accounts | consulting help | site-licensed software | administrative computing

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 them in some detail below.

Faculty/Staff [back to top]

Faculty and staff will normally use Darkwing, a large shared Sun Enterprise 5500 system targeted for compute-intensive academic applications.

If you have accounts on additional machines, please be sure to routinely check your email on all systems, or forward your email from your less preferred account to your favorite account.

Undergraduate Students [back to top]

Undergraduate student accounts are automatically created on Gladstone, a large Sun Enterprise 5500 Unix system.

Gladstone accounts can be used for electronic mail and serving personal web pages. We also offer an expanded range of academic software on Gladstone, such as SAS and Mathematica (see software chart below).

Graduate Students [back to top]

Graduate students automatically have accounts created for them on Darkwing; however, if they wish, they can also authorize themselves for an account on Gladstone.

Administrative Systems [back to top]

Daisy. Daisy is a large Alpha administrative system running OpenVMS/AXP. The primary application running on Daisy is BANNER, an administrative application environment based on Oracle, a popular large system database. Access to Daisy is restricted to staff members who are performing administrative tasks like grade processing and payroll.

Dialin Access? [back to top]

Your account on Darkwing or Gladstone enables you to dial in from off campus to the university's modem pool (see "What About Dialing In From Off-Campus?" on page 2.) The modem number for accessing UOnet, the campus network, is 225-2200.

Your modem access is for casual use--no more than a few hours a day on average. If you need dedicated or near-dedicated network access, you will want to contact a commercial Internet Service Provider. One list of ISPs is available at http://www.thelist.com/

Special Accounts for Classes and Departments [back to top]

If you're teaching an undergraduate class and your students need to access software available only on Darkwing, temporary accounts can be created for their use. For more information, contact Connie French at 346-1738.

Departments or university-recognized institutes, labs, or organizations 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 department head or institute administrator.

Acceptable Use. 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 (175 McKenzie Hall), or online at http://cc.uoregon.edu/policy/

Large Systems Consulting Help [back to top]

If you have any questions about using the UO's large timesharing computers, contact the large systems consulting group in Rooms 225-239 Computing Center (346-1758). They can help with questions about email, multimedia delivery, scientific and CGI programming, and web page development.For more information about these services, see http://cc.uoregon.edu/unixvmsconsulting.html

Site-Licensed Software [back to top]

The UO has site licenses for a number of software packages you can use on your campus workstation, including:

• Norton Antivirus. Available on the Duckware 2002 CD (see article on page 3). See also http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/
  
• SAS. SAS users are allowed to install SAS on their PCs both at work and at home. Go to http://sas.uoregon.edu/
  
• Mathematica. See http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~hak/mathematica/
  
• ESRI (GIS and mapping software such as ArcInfo, ArcView) See http://www.esri.com/
  
• IMSL numerical libraries. Contact Hans Kuhn at hak@oregon.uoregon.edu
  

Administrative Computing [back to top]

The Administrative Services IT staff supports applications that are used by practically every department on campus, as well as some areas of the Oregon University System. They are specifically responsible for the SCT Banner applications such as A/R, Finance, Payroll, Student, Financial Aid, DuckWeb, DuckCall, and the data warehouses. In addition, they support many auxiliary administrative applications including the UO online directory, and systems in Housing, Student Health Center, Printing Services, and Facilities Services.

If you have any questions about Administrative Services, contact Susan Hilton (346-1725, hilton@oregon.uoregon.edu) or Jim Bohle (346-1706, jbohle@oregon.uoregon.edu).