CAE Lab File Server
Printing to CAE Lab Printers
X Servers for Windows, Mac, etc.
X Terminals in CH204
To increase seating capacity at minimal cost, Clement Hall 204 has 8 X-Terminals which provide graphical interfaces to the 5 Unix workstations in Clement Hall 208. Though not suited for solid modeling in I-DEAS, Pro/ENGINEER, or similar packages, they work well for writing programs, technical writing, or performing finite-element analysis.
The first menu you see when sitting at one of the terminals shows a list of the available hosts in the CAE lab. The left column shows the computer's name, and the right column shows its processor load:
If the load on a particular computer is less than its number of processors, it still can run other jobs at full speed. As listed on our hardware capabilities page, ch208a is a 2-processor computer, ch208l and ch208m are 4-processor computers, and ch208n and ch208o are 2-processor computers. In the example above, ch208a has the lowest relative load (2.0 divided over 2 processors) and will likely have the best performance at present. As users start and finish other computational jobs, another computer will be the least loaded.
Select the least loaded computer from the list and click the Accept button at the bottom of the dialog. Your terminal will be connected to that computer and you'll be able to log in as normal.
To exit the Solaris login screen without logging in, select the Return to local host option from the Options menu. Note: it may take several attempts before you actually exit successfully.
To exit the GNU/Linux login screen without logging in, press Ctrl-C. Note: it may take several attempts before you actually exit successfully.
