Introduction To Computing

Introduction

Hi there! This page is designed to give you a general introduction to computing at the MD lab. There are a number of topics.

General Policy

The computers are there to share. Anyone should be able to login to any computer, so please logout when you are not using the computer (within reason). Please don't switch off the computers. If there is a problem with the computer, such as the screen freezing, it is probably a problem with the network. If this occurs, please talk to a post-doc rather than just rebooting the computer.

Jobs

The workstations are configured like the cluster which means that you can run jobs on them. To run a job on a workstation you don't need to use qsub, just execute the script directly in your shell. Please make sure that one core is free at all times (otherwise the person sitting in front of the computer will get poor performance). You can check what is running on the computer using the top command.