Computing Facilities - School of Computer Science

On May 23, 2012 SCS Facilities will upgrade the Linux general purpose machines' (linux.gp.cs.cmu.edu) operating system from Fedora 10 to Ubuntu 10.04. Details

May 2012 Critical Windows, Office and Adobe patches

On May 8, 2012, Microsoft released patches for critical vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, and Office for Macintosh. Adobe has also released critical patches for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Shockwave Player, Adobe Flash Professional, and Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Details

LINUX.GP Service Upgrade

On May 23, 2012 SCS Facilities will upgrade the Linux general purpose machines' (linux.gp.cs.cmu.edu) operating system from Fedora 10 to Ubuntu 10.04. Details

Important Mac OS X update - requires immediate action

SCS Mac OS X users should run Software Update immediately in order to get the LATEST Java security update from Apple (Java for OS X 2012-003). This update will remove common variants of the Flashback malware, if detected. Details

Kerberos Update

We have implemented several measures that have greatly reduced the frequency and severity of Kerberos-related problems, and are continuing to actively monitor our servers and quickly resolve authentication issues. Details

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SCS Facilities Support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

SCS Computing Facilities is pleased to announce the addition of Linux support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for 64 bit systems. Supported Ubuntu Linux hosts will now run the new SCS Dragon computing environment. Details

If you are new to SCS

Our introductory documentation has some information to help you get started, including the slides from the 2011 Facilities Immigration Course talks.

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