For routine questions or requests send mail to help@cs.cmu.edu. For more urgent matters, contact the CS help desk at x8-4231 or visit them in person M-F, 9am-5pm, in WeH 3613. Outside of office hours, the phone rolls over to the CS operations group, which is staffed 24x7x365.
Q: Are the accounts ready yet?
A: Yes (8/30).
Q: What do I need to do before logging in for the very
first time?
A: From your Andrew home directory on one of the Andrew
Unix cluster machines (linux.andrew, etc.), run the following
one-time script:
/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f00/bin/checkin
Q: What does the checkin script do?
A: It creates two subdirectories in your Andrew home
directory: "15-213" and "213hw".
Q: How do I log into one of these machines?
A: If your Andrew login is bovik and you want to login
to machine FISH, then login as follows:
% telnet FISH.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu
Trying 128.2.222.163...
Connected to FISH.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
[ Kerberos V4 accepts you ]
[ Kerberos V4 challenge successful ]
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i686
login: bovik@andrew.cmu.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ don't leave this out!
password: [andrew password]
Alternatively, if you use ssh:
% ssh -l bovik@andrew.cmu.edu FISH.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu bovik@andrew.cmu.edu@FISH's password: [andrew password]
Don't forget to replace "FISH" with a cluster machine name from the table below.
Intel engineers traditionally use the names of North American rivers as internal names for their processor projects. So it seems fitting that we, as denizens of the Intel cluster, name the machines after freshwater fish of North America. The machines can be accessed with either ssh or telnet.
| bass.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu | bluegill.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu |
Each node on the cluster runs Red Hat Linux 5.2 (Linux kernel 2.0.36) and consists of the following hardware: