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The Northstar workstations (SGI O2) and SunRay terminal appliances are a
legacy set of public UNIX workstations distributed around campus. They are no
longer maintained and will be retired as their utility to the hosting
departments ceases. There are workstations remaining in Kresge Library,
Fairchild Tower (Physics), and Berry Library.
All share common user names, passwords, and home directories (stored in
AFS). Available software includes mathematical and engineering software,
compilers and development tools, Internet tools, graphics and multimedia tools,
and productivity tools.
Accounts
All home directories are stored on central file servers (AFS), so that the
same files are visible to each computer. There is also temporary scratch space
local to each computer. No backups are made of local disks on the
workstations.
All accounts in AFS are backed up on a regular schedule as a protection
against accidental destruction of files. However, backup files are not kept
indefinitely. For more details, see File
Backups.
For information on AFS accounts and usage policies, see AFS Account and
Usage Policies.
Help
If you have questions about the UNIX environment or problems with the
Research Computing/AFS systems, send e-mail to the system administrator at admin@northstar. Also see
our Frequently Asked
Questions for Researchers.
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