Who May Get Accounts
Students, faculty, and staff of the college may obtain Northstar/Nimbus
(AFS) accounts for any non-commercial, college-related purpose. A necessary and
sufficient condition for such an account is that the person is currently listed
in the Dartmouth Name Directory (DND). Users may obtain accounts by logging on
as "newuser" and completing the application. If the person terminates his or
her formal association with the college, Research Computing will close the
account.
Under special circumstances, Accounts may be granted to people not currently
listed in the DND. Like all Northstar accounts, these non-Dartmouth
accounts must be for non-commercial, college-related business. Each
non-Dartmouth account must have a sponsor who is a Dartmouth faculty or staff
member and is currently listed in the DND. The sponsor accepts all
responsibility for the account. A sponsor may obtain a non-Dartmouth account on
Northstar by logging on as "newuser" and completing the online
application, and then following up by e-mail to admin@northstar to verify
sponsorship. If the sponsor terminates his or her formal association with the
college, Research Computing will close the account.
Research Computing may close any account that has not been logged into for
one year.
In the future, Computing Services may find it necessary to charge for
research use of its facilities. Notification will be made prior to such a
charge being implemented.
The Dartmouth College
Information Technology Policy governs all accounts. Research Computing
reserves the right to disable or close any account whose use is found to
violate the Code or to pose an immediate threat to system operation.
These guidelines are subject to periodic review by Research Computing.
Workstation Usage
Northstar workstations are primarily intended for
interactive use by Dartmouth faculty, staff and students. As such, it is
important that users sitting at the console have reasonable access to the
resources available. Therefore, we ask that any users who have logged in
remotely respect the usage privileges of the user at the machine, and not load
that system too heavily with remote jobs.
All Northstar accounts are also valid on two compute
servers for remote use only. It is recommended that you use these
machines, Polaris and Nimbus for all remote access.
Please follow these guidelines if you remotely log into Northstar
workstations:
- Limit your number of remote logins and simultaneous jobs on remote machines
to as few as possible. Choose machines that have no one logged in at the time
or machines that you know get little use.
- Use the nice or renice command to make
your job less demanding of system resources. (Enter man nice
or man renice for details on how to do
this.)
- You should be aware that any remote jobs that interfere with local use of
the machine are subject to being niced or terminated by the system
administrator without notice. Also, your jobs are vulnerable to being killed by
a user sitting at the console who might reset the machine.
- Do not tie up machines by starting jobs and then leaving the machine for
long periods of time. Such users may be logged out by users or the system
administrator.
If you have any questions about this policy, send mail to admin@northstar.
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