Large Timesharing Systems at the UO: Find Out What System Resources Are Available to You

faculty/staff | undergraduates | graduate students | administrative systems | off-campus access | special accounts | large systems help | site-licensed software | statistics consulting |

Faculty/Staff [back to top]

Faculty and staff will normally use Darkwing, a large shared Sun Enterprise 5500 Unix system targeted for compute-intensive academic applications as well as email and web access.

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 (forwarding instructions are available at http://cc.uoregon.edu/mailforward.html ).

Undergraduate Students [back to top]

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

Among other things, 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 create 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. For more details on administrative systems, see the Administrative Services website at http://ccadmin.uoregon.edu/

Off-Campus 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 Off-Campus Connections?" on page 3.) The modem number for accessing UOnet, the campus network, is 225-2200. (Note: 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/ )

DSL and cable modem subscribers can connect via the UO's Virtual Private Network, or VPN (you'll find an overview of VPN online at http://micro.uoregon.edu/getconnected/vpn_overview.html). Software to access the Internet and campus facilities from home is available on the Duckware CD-ROM, which is free to all faculty, staff, and registered students (see article on page 2). You may also acquire shareware from the Computing Center's public domain libraries ( http://micro.uoregon.edu/pd/ ).

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 Help [back to top]

If you have any questions about using the UO's large timesharing computers, contact the large systems consulting group in 225-239 Computing Center (346-1758, consult@darkwing or consult@gladstone ). 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 2003 CD (see article on page 2). See also http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/
• SAS. SAS users may 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://esri.uoregon.edu/

Statistics Consulting [back to top]

If you need help with a statistical analysis project, make an appointment with Robin High, the Computing Center's resident statistical consultant. Call 346-1718 or write robinh@uoregon.edu to make arrangements.

You may also want to visit Robin's statistical resources page at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~robinh/statistics.html

This page offers guides for using SAS, SPSS, and MINITAB, as well as essays on pertinent data analysis issues.