An overview of the CITA computing environment

This document is intended to provide new research fellows, visitors, and other staff with a brief description of CITA's computing facilities. It doesn't attempt to be complete or exhaustive; pointers to more detailed documentation are provided where appropriate. Please send suggestions for topics that have been omitted, or about inaccurate/ambiguous information, and such to requests@cita.utoronto.ca, since updates will be made on a regular basis.
 
Email requests@cita.utoronto.ca to report hardware or software problems and to ask related questions.

Contents Appendices


Facilities A: List of CITA computers and X terminals
High-Performance Computing B: List of CITA disk space
Disk Space C: Dealing with tapes
User Environments D: E-mail addresses
Electronic Mail E: E-mail troubleshooting
Compilers and Parallel Tools F: Homepages and file uploads
Software Packages G: Software portability
Remote Access to CITA
H: Frequently-encountered problems
Tapes, CD and DVD Burners
VNC and Wireless Access Information
J: Additional reading
Printing, Text Processing K: LCD Projector
UofT Services & Software

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