Unix/linux Computer Resources
These pages are intended mainly for use by workers within the School of Chemistry, and they detail some of the resources that are available for unix/linux based computers. For desktop PC resources and information, please see here. For information about the Research Data Store maintained by the Advanced Computing Research Data Centre please see here (Chemistry Department systems only).
grendel is a beowulf cluster belonging to the computational group, but available to any member of the department who needs to carry out processor intensive calculations. It is to be used for serial, not parallel codes.
curie is a 64bit beowulf cluster belonging to the computational group.
ccc-graphics cluster is a cluster of SGI's belonging to the computational group. It is used for running graphical modelling programs and programs that need to be run interactively.
checking performance of programs, some tips on how to monitor performance and avoid problems.
mole. This page is only accessible from Chemistry Department sites.
monthly loads on the Chemistry Department beowulf clusters.
manuals of some software packages. For copyright reasons these are only accessible from Chemistry Department sites.
secure shell communications are recommended to our computers because of security loopholes in telnet and ftp.
Some links to information on unix and linux are available here.
Guidelines for buying and using computers running linux.
Some useful software available for linux desktop systems.