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LPL Central Computing Systems (LCS) |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Facilities
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| Department of Planetary Sciences Lunar and Planetary Laboratory |
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LPL Central Computing Systems (LCS) |
How do I access LPL's public ftp (anonymous ftp) site?
Click here to access the LPL public ftp site: LPL FTP Site
You can upload a file to the site by going to the pub/incoming folder. If you are using a browser to upload, click File->Upload File. If you are using a command-line window to connect to the ftp site, login as anonymous with your email address as password, cd pub/incoming, and use the "put" command to upload the file;
You can download files from the site by going to pub/lpl/
Files that have been uploaded to the incoming folder can be accessed from hindmost's /ftp/pub/incoming directory.
If you would like to create a directory from which the public may download files, please contact LCS Support.
There are black-and-white and color printers for LPL public use in room 331 and in the hallway next to room 444.
To print duplex from a Solaris machine, use the appropriate -dup queue. To print duplex from a Windows PC, use the Print/Print Setup/Print Preview GUI to select double-sided printing.
The Windows-PC in room 331 has an attached flatbed scanner & OCR software for digitizing
paper documents.
Other centralized peripherals are located in the main LCS computer room
and support offices (444/446). They are attached to Unix servers and include
two 9-slot Sun StorEdge DLT 9000 Autoloader robotic drives, with capacities up to 80GB per tape,
and a 38-slot Sun StorEdge C4 LTO tape library with two robotic drives, with a total capacity of 15 TB.
The High Performance Computing Center is a research resource, intended for testing and running large codes, parallel-processing codes, visualization and scientific applications. Accounts are available for all University faculty for the purpose of research. Faculty members can sponsor accounts for members of the University community doing research (staff, students, visiting scholars). There are three systems available for supercomputing:
What types of computers are available at LPL?
LCS Unix Workstations, MACs, and Windows PCs can be found in rooms 331 and 429a.
The Unix Workstations are Sun machines running Solaris with common
administration of usernames & passwords. In addition to the 200+ Unix
utilities, Fortran & C compilers are available. Text processing support
includes Emacs, Tex, and Framemaker.
What kind of MACs and Windows PCs are available at LPL?
The PowerMACs have 3.5" diskette drives with DOS capability and cdrom
readers. They run MacOS 10.x and have Microsoft products installed (e.g.,
Word, Excel, Internet Explorer). The PCs typically run Windows XP.
All are connected to the network and have access to the Unix filesystems,
printers and other network tools such as Secure Shell and Secure File Transfer.
What kind of printers and other peripherals are available at LPL?
Location
Queue Name
Printer Type
Output Type
IP Address
Room 331
hp4300-316
black-white
single-sided
150.135.109.237
Room 331
hp4300-316-dup
black-white
duplex
150.135.109.237
Room 331
hp4600-316
color
single-sided
150.135.110.8
Room 331
hp4600-316-dup
color
duplex
150.135.110.8
Room 331
lj6mp-316
black-white
single-sided
128.196.145.203
Room 444 -- Hallway
qms3100-444
color
duplex
150.135.111.25
What LPL systems are not part of LCS?
Some of the computational resources at LPL are not part of LCS. These
autonomous systems provide direct support for our many research and
instructional groups. The policies governing their use are independent
of LCS. LCS resources are characterized by their general availability to
all LPL faculty, students, and staff members and are not specifically
dedicated to particular uses (e.g. Business Office, Academic Office).
When in doubt regarding the ownership of a computational resource, consider
its location, and feel free to consult LCS Staff.
How do I find out who's using software licenses?
The usage for several licensed sofware packages served from our central license
server can be found
here.
What supercomputing facilities are available for parallel-processing, visualization, and scientific applications?
LPL's High Performance Astrophysics Simulator (HiPAS) is a 64-node (128-cpu) Opteron cluster.
It is available to members of the Jokipii, Giacalone, Showman, and Pavlov research groups.
Quartz
Lapis
Glass
Machine Type
SGI Origin2000
SGI Origin2000
SGI Origin3000
Operating System
Irix 6.5.15F
Irix 6.5.15F
Irix 6.5.15F
Processors
16
88
20
Memory
4.5 GB
44 GB
10 GB
Disk space
80 GB
800 GB
230 GB
What software is available on my server ?
Program TS1 Terminalserver2 TS3
Adobe Bridge X CS3
Adobe Designer v7.0
Adobe Distiller v 7.0 v 8.0
Adobe GoLive CS2
Adobe ImageReady CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Adobe InDesign CS2
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Reader 8.0 X X X
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 X X X
CutePDF X X X
Cygwin X X X
EndNote X X X
Firefox X X X
Ghostgum X X X
Ghostscript X X X
Gtk+ X X X
Macromedia Contribute v 3 CS3
Macromedia Dreamweaver v 8.0 CS3
Macromedia Fireworks v 8.0 CS3
Macromedia Flash v 8.0
Macromedia Flash Video Encoder v 8.0
Macromedia Flash Player v 8.0
Maple 11 X
Mathematica v 5.2 v 6.0
MATLAB R2007b X X X
OfficePro 2003 X X X
OpenOffice.org 2.0 X
PDF Creator X X X
Picasa 2 X X X
Pidgin X X X
PuTTy X X X
QuickTime Player X X X
RealPlayer X
RGA 3.0 X X X
SciFinder Scholar 2006 X X X
Scion Image X X X
SPSS 15.0 X X X
SRIM 2006 X X X
SSH X
Starry Night X
Thunderbird X X X
WinEdt X X X
WinRAR X X X
WinSCP 3 X X X
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