Computing

This page is hopelessly out of date, but it does serve as an interesting historical record.

The MathNet is served primarily by a powerful Sun UltraEnterprise 3000, named euler (in honor of the prodigious and prolific Swiss mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to analysis, number theory, and geometry). This server boasts two 250MHz UltraSparc processors, 512MB of RAM, and 54GB of disk space. It is the primary login server for all users on the MathNet.

There is a wide array of software on euler. The most commonly used include maple, matlab, splus, emacs, netscape, pine, tex (including latex and amstex), xfig, and xv. There are also compilers for C and C++ (both Sun and GNU versions), pascal, and fortran, as well as perl, python, prolog, java, and many GNU utilities. There is also an office suite, ApplixWare, which includes a spreadsheet and wordprocessor.

Most users login to the MathNet thru Xterminals or a PC-based Xserver. Most faculty offices have a PC, and many also have an NCD Xterminal. All staff and grad student offices have at least one NCD Xterminal. There are 10 color Xterminals and 50 Dell Optiplex PC in the Newton Lab, our student computing lab, in UH1000. The PC Xserver used in the math department and the Newton lab is Exceed, from Hummingbird.

You can access the MathNet remotely with ssh or samba. For more information, read the section "How to access the MathNet" (missing).