medusa: mini-supercomputer

Silicon Graphics Power Challenge

Backups

All users should back up important files on medusa disks to tape or onto another machine. Medusa is having hardware problems and has been unstable. No global backups are being made due to policy and problems with our tape drive. You have been warned.

Hardware description ( November 16, 1998 )

Security Issues

Please use "ssh" and "slogin" in place of rsh, rlogin, rcmd, and telnet. xhost should not be used and is now disabled.

Software list

Maximum of one job at normal priority per user. Additional jobs can be submitted at lower priority using the local command Nice. Or otherwise change the priority of your jobs to 5 by "renice -n 15 ". Check with top.

Useful tips


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Andrew MacFadyen- andrew@ucolick.org - November 16, 1998