Public Unix Servers

Math Servers

List of departmental public servers

Name

Resources

Purpose

Do

Don't
login.math.berkeley.edu 8 CPU cores, 8GB RAM SSH gateway
  • Worldwide access to Unix shell command line interface (CLI)
  • Text editing, emailing, Tex/LaTeX writing
  • Worldwide SCP/SFTP access to home directory
  • Access to personal web pages ~/public_html
  • Access to other otherwise unreachable public servers
  • Any serious computing
  • Graphics user interface (GUI)
twiggy.math.berkeley.edu 32 CPU cores, 92GB RAM

Virtual desktop (thin client server)
  • Graphics user interface (GUI) access (via thin clients)
  • Worldwide access to Unix shell command line interface (CLI) and graphics user interface (GUI) (via X2Go and TigerVNC client)
  • Internet browsing, emailing, Tex/LaTeX writing
  • Interactive scientific computing
  • Access to commercial scientific software
  • High performance computing (via SSH Access to beyonce)
  • Supercomputing
beyonce.math.berkeley.edu 64 CPU cores, 224GB RAM High performance computing
  • Parallel computing
  • Non-interactive computational jobs (via screen utility)
  • CLI access to scientific (including commercial) software
  • Application programming: C/C++, Fortran, Python, R, etc.
  • Temporary storage of massive computational data
  • GUI computing
  • Supercomputing

SSH

SSH Access

Log in to a Math Department server using an ssh client.

File access and management

In order to manage your account, you first have to connect to the network. You can log onto math department account from any of the departmental computers in Evans 744 and public printer rooms.

Access you math account from your personal computer:

  1. Connect remotely on campus. There are two kinds of programs that can connect your computer remotely, SSH and SFTPs.
    • SSH
    • SFTPS
  2. Connect remotely off campus.

ssh from Windows machines

One client we recommend is PuTTY. For free fromdownload: Download PuTTY: latest release.

ssh from a terminal (shell)

On a terminal window (shell), type 'ssh USERNAME@login.math.berkeley.edu'

To use the graphical user interface (GUI) of programs (e.g. Maple), type 'ssh -tCX USERNAME@login.math.berkeley.edu ssh -X beyonce' this command opens a terminal session on the HPC server beyonce using login as an SSH gateway.

Then for example type 'xmaple'.

Note that the only computers allowed to be physically connected to the network are the departmental ones.

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