| Target Name: | Venus |
| Spacecraft: | Magellan |
| Produced by: | Calvin J. Hamilton |
| Copyright: | © Calvin J. Hamilton |
Welcome to a lab with lots of computing power! The main power is in our linux cluster. The cluster currently consists of 6 computing machines:
* monk
* miles
* charlie
* getz
* coltrane
* herbie
These machines can be accessed from the workstations in the lab - currently three of them. Each workstation has access to at least one of the machines. There is a KVM box with cables coming out and buttons that allow you to switch which machine the keyboard and monitor are connected to. These machines can also be accessed through ssh: from a linux machine
# ssh -Y -l username computer.shadlen.org
(where computer is one of the cluster machines, Y allows remote graphics, and the -l is an el, not a one) on a command line, from a linux, mac or a windows machine. It is also possible to secure copy files to/from these machines: from a linux machine or mac and from a windows machine. These machines have matlab, xemacs, mri imaging software(Caret, Surefit, and ImageJ), firefox (web browser), thunderbird (email client), and most other typical linux programs. In addition to the cluster machines, there is another linux machine available for use: brubeck. Brubeck is our test machine, so it will usually have newer versions of software on it. People are encouraged to use brubeck to test new versions of software, and occasionally I will send out emails that we are going to update the rest of the machines soon, and encourage people to test brubeck more thoroughly. Brubeck has all of the same programs as the cluster machines available on it, and is available on one of the belkin boxes in the computer area of the lab, but it cannot be used as part of the cluster for parallel computing. For more information using the cluster for parallel computing, please see the help pages, Jochen has kindly assembled for us.