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Information about computer and computing

INDEX:

• At first let us agree to some definitions in order to be sure that we will "understand each others"
• First steps on a UNIX computer (courtesy of our Department)
• Rules
• Hardware
• About mail
• Number crunching
• Linux
• How to print
• Software + utilities
• Statistics
• System + Networking
• System management

 
• History
• Planing
• Obsolete documentation (archive)
• regarding our campus
• general interest

First steps on a UNIX computer

• Basic UNIX commands (courtesy of carlson@math.utah.edu)
• Using the "find" command (text from a SUN document)

Our computer facilities

• Rules
  • rules for remote jobs (Last update: October 2003)
  • Rules for the use of " ftp anonymous"(October 2003)
  
  
• Hardware
  • Our computer facilities
  • Concepts of Computing facilities
  • Workstations at IFH
  • Home Directories
  • Electrostatic hazards for Hardware (PDF)
  
  
• Linux clients
  • Access your SUN Home_Dir from your Linux box
  
  
• Software + utilities
  • Software Documentation
  • SUN Microsystems
  • IBM computers
  • free software (GNU, wml, html, apache, samba etc)
  • licensed software
  • Unigraphics
  • SEPP: software at your disposition
  • Using the 'Virtual Network Computing' software
  • Using the MIVATEC Raster Photoplotter
  • mail + WWW for the PHOTONICS group (restricted)
  • Using ADS on your PC
  • IDES2: Kurzeinleitung für die Testphase (PDF file) Text in german
  • Number crunching
    • Check free memory from your program April 27, 2004
    • Matrix multiplication on the SunPlatform October 7, 2003
    • About using libraries with FORTRAN (Dec. 2002)
    • About using makefile (Dec. 2002)
    • The future with AMD64 (PDF - Nov. 2003)
    • The AMD Opteron processor (PDF - Nov. 2003)
    • Opteron CPU (PDF - Nov. 2003)
    • Benchmarks with Opteron(PDF - Nov. 2003)
    • Concepts of clusters (Dec. 2000)
  • How to print (Sep. 2002)
  • Basic Principles of Printing for Solaris Courtesy of Sun Microsystems, October 2003
  • Using VNC (Virtual Network Computing) software (June 2000)
  • Introduction of the use of the "subversion" software (svn)
  • About mail:
    

    postfix (May 2000)

    The PINE mail system (April 1998)

    How to block SPAMS with SpamAssasin courtesy of David Schweikert, ISG D-ITET (Apr. 2002)

    Apply the above SPAMs counter measures in our environment (Nov 2003)

    The procedure "learnspams" (Dec. 2003)

    How to avoid to send the vacation message to spams adresses (May 2003)

    Virus detector for the mail server A few notes (Aug 2003)

    Our internal Mailing Lists (Febr 1999)

    Freedom with Eudora: mail folders on your home directory (Aug 2003)

  • Protected file transfer repository via Web for the Red Blood Cells Group (my_tutorial - June 2008)
  • Using the command umask (my tutorial - Sept. 2005)
  • Plotting with the MIVATEC Turbo T3 Raster Photoplotter
  • Facilities for the PHOTONICS group: mail + WWW (access restricted) (Nov. 2002)
  • new: e commerce: credit cards online (May 2006)
  • Concepts and introduction to a Submission and Reviewing System (2007)
  • Web Pages for the EMC Symposium 2005 (March 2003)
  • Problem solution for PC users of ADS Software (Feb 2001)
  
  
• Security:
  • Protect a directory with passwords How to do (June 2005)
  • Secure shell: concepts and usage (May 2000)
  • PGP (Pretty Good Privacy): introduction (March 2000)
  • Virus detector for the mail server A few notes (Aug 2003)
  • Article: Secure Shell: Part 1 by Amy Rich (May 2003) courtesy if SUN Microsystems
  • Article: Secure Shell: Part 2 by Amy Rich (June 2003) courtesy if SUN Microsystems
  
  
• Statistics:
  • Months Statistics of WWW inquiries (access restricted)
  
  
• System + Networking
  • new: WLAN connections at ETH (Sept. 2005)
  • Wireless LAN Konzept 2000 der ETH PDF file (Apr 2003)
  • UNIX installation at the D-ELEK by David Schweikert (Febr 2000)
  • Disk quota for Solaris 7 (May 2003) Courtesy of Jicheng Qu, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
  • Network Configuration on the Solaris Platform Courtesy of Sun Microsystems, May 2003
  
  
• History:
  • Picture of the old server "betelgeuze" (Courtesy of Aldo Rossi) (August 2001)
  • About "sirius" Courtesy of NASA, USA (March 2000)
• Planing:
• EDV Budget 1999 - 2003 [ access restricted to ifh ] (Nov. 1998)
• Obsolete (kept for documentation = archive)
• Routing in our subnets (Oct. 2001)
• Network topology (March 1999)
• Web Calendar: manuals (Nov. 2001)
• Account on bigbang Some information (Dec. 2000)
• Small problems during the system transition time: turnarounds (Nov. 2000)
• High Performance Computing software (Nov 1998)
• High Performance Computing (HPC) 2.0 Product Overview (Oct 1997)
• How to use the IMSL library (Nov 1997)
• How to submit jobs to "priamos" (SUN E3500 parallel machine) (Last update: July 2000)

Regarding system management

• new: How to create a bootable CDROM for Solaris (Dec. 2002)
• new: Virtual Mail Domain (Sept. 2002)
• New system management on bigbang (access restricted)(updated 02.10.2000)
• You cas see the software at your disposition through SEPP from our Department at the URL: http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/sepp/index.html (access restricted)
• Sun: Solaris Forum at Tek-Tips Sun: Solaris technical support forum and
  mutual help system for computer professionals.
  Selling and recruiting forbidden. (starting Aug 2002)
• Obsolete since April 2001): Disconnecting the A5000 disk array(April 2001)
• Obsolete since April 2001: About RAID and the Volume Manager Software (July 1998)
• Obsolete since March 2001: About our incremental procedure incr_backup (Sept 1997)
• Obsolete since April 2001: Restore a file from jabba-backup (Jan 1999)
• Obsolete since Sept. 2000: Our mail system: Overview + installation (Oct 1997)
• Obsolete since Jan. 2001: How the automounter is organized in our network (concepts, realisation,etc)
• (we switched to proftpd-1.2.0pre10 in Jan. 2001) ftp_anonymous: how to install (from SunSolve)

Software documentation

SUN Microsystems

Local documentation (i.e. source in our network thus easy and quick access):

General documentation, Operating Systems

• Content of the Solaris 7 Documentation CD (April 1999)
• Answerbooks for Solaris 8 (Dec. 2001) local on our server
• Solaris 9 Documentation(Aug 2002)
• SUN-Solaris_10-presentation.pdf (Nov. 2004)

System software

• About jumpstart (SUN Doc, May 2000)
• Workshop vers. 6.2: compilers and a lot of information (Dec 2001)
• Remote System Control (RSC) User's Guide (Dec. 2002)
• RSC User's Guide in PDF format
• RSC User's Guide, PDF, in German
• Check Tool README PDF file (Nov.2002)

Hardware documentation

Disks Arrays

• StorEdge_3310-Release_Notes PDF (29th Nov. 2004)
• StorEdge_3310-Manual PDF (29th Nov. 2004)
• Sun StorEdge 3000 Family best Practice Manual (link to Sun Site)
• Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Software 1.5 Installation Guide (link to Sun Site)
• Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Configuration service 1.5 User's Guide (link to Sun Site)
• Sun StorEdge 3310: other links (link to Sun Site)

AMD architecture

• Sun Fire_V2000z AMD - white paper (PDF) (Nov. 2004)
• SUN Java Workstation W2100z - white paper (PDF) (Nov. 2004)

Fire servers

• Sun-FireV480 specificatons (PDF)(Aug 2002)
• Fire V210 and V240 Parts Replacement manual (link to sun.com) (Aug 2005)

Blade machines

• Sun Blade 1000 Hardware Manual (Nov. 2001)
• Sun Blade 1000 Hardware Manual in PDF format (Nov. 2001)
• Sun Blade 100 Service Manual (as above but PDF)(Nov. 2001)
• Blade 100 top callout view (Sept 2002)

Older architectures

• Sun Ultra 10 Hardware Manual (March 2000)

Peripherals

• DVD_10X/40X Installation and User's Guide (July 2002)
• SUN PCi Vers. 2 User Guide (PDF) (06.05.2002)

SunRay Server Software

• SunRay Readme (Nov. 2002)
• Install Guide (Nov. 2002)
• Administrator Guide (Nov. 2002)
• Advanced Administration Guide (Nov. 2002)
• Sun Ray Vers. 1.3 -Installation Guide (pdf format) (October 2002)
• SunRay Vers. 1.3 - Administration Guide (pdf format) (October 2002)
• SunRay Vers. 1.3 - Advanced Admin Guide (pdf format) (October 2002)
• SunRay Vers. 1.3 - Man pages - Server Software (pdf format) (October 2002)

External documentation (i.e. require external network access)
Very useful:

• Complete set of documents about everything from SUN (always up to date)

IBM computers

Local documentation (i.e. on our servers: quick access)
• IBM HTTP server

External documentation (i.e. require external network access)

• IBM: AIX-RS6000 Documentation Library
• Web-based System Manager

Free Software (GNU etc)

• About admin tool for MeetingMaker (Apr 2003)
• Meetingmaker Admin Manual (Apr 2003)
• vim/gvim manual pages in PDF format (Feb 2003)
• Manual page for command 'rsync' (Jan. 2002)
• man page for 'rsyncd.conf' (Jan. 2002)
• Web Calendar: manuals (Nov. 2001)
• Virtual Network Computing (VNC) docs (May 2000)
• CVS Documentation(link done 17.02.2000)
• My short version of the cvs manual
• MYSQL manual(Vers. 3.0.7, May 1999)
• PHP-3 manual(Vers. 3.22.21, May 1999)
• Official updated manual for PHP (external web site)
• APACHE manual for vers. 1.2b7
• MOTIF FAQ ==>careful: 540 Kbyte !! (Last update Sept. 1998)
• Qt distribution README
• Qt tutorial: an Introduction
• Qt libraries: documentation
• World Wide web main Web Page
• wml tags (Dec. 2003)
• wml: TAGs used at D-ITET (Dec. 2003)
• wml Introduction (PDF) by T. oetiker and F. Zaucker (Dec. 2003)

Licensed software

• Mathtools.net Info about MATLAB, C, C++, FORTRAN, JAVA and many others packages
• Info about NAG's f95
• Ansoft ENSEMBLE V6
• Sniff+ ===> see the corresponding SEPP package
• LSF (Load Sharing Facility) - manuals, Vers. 3.2 - May 99
• Structure of LSF software on SEPP(PDF file)
  What follow has the same content as the PDF files but in GIF format:
  1. Structure of the (installed) package
  2. Structure of /usr/pack/lsf-3.2-rb
  3. Structure of /usr/sepp/var/lsf-3.2-rb

Unigraphics

• Unigraphics Solutions Home Page in USA: on-line document library (last vers.)

(following items are access restricted to our lab because of license agreements)

• Doc. for Version 15.0 of the Unigraphics Package

• Info about Upgrade to 15.0.3
  OLDER documentations:
  • Unigraphics V13.0: What's new on release 13.0
  • Unigraphics V13.0 Release Notes
  • Unigraphics V12.0 Assemblies Best Practices Guide
  • Unigraphics V12.0 Drafting Guide to Effecitve Use
  • Unigraphics V12.0 Beta Sketcher Guide
  • Unigraphics V12.0 UGOpen Guide

Regarding general computer matter on our campus

• Rules about the Computer Infrastructure at the ETH Zurich (updated by the id.ee.ethz.ch)
• Forum Informatikanwender: Home Page(updated by id.ee.ethz.ch)
• Richtlinien für Informatik Anträge an VP-Forschung(1999)
• MATLAB licenses for PCs and MACs (link to actual info of the "Informatikdienste")
• EUDORA version 4: mail from Informatikdienste

Regarding general computer topics

• new:The Microsoft DANGER!!! (Nov. 2002)
• new:History of the birth of the SUN company
• new:A Brief History of UNIX (Standford University)
• The history of FORTRAN (June 2001)
• Development and history of ETHERNET
(March 2000)
• Technical information about ETHERNET, TCP/IP, UNIX and html(March 2000)
• SAN storage concepts(Oct 1999)
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX(Febr. 1999)
• LSF-based Parallel Windows NT Cluster (Aug. 1998)
• Top 500 for High Performance Computing
• SUN High Perf. Comp. Documentation(Oct 1997)
• INTEL TO PURCHASE DEC'S ALPHA MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS (97Oct27)
• RAID-concepts (Oct 1997)
• CAN TURING SYSTEMS MAKE VON NEUMANN OBSOLETE? (Sept 1997)

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