Academic Computing Services

Unix Resources

Getting Started

Step 1 Guides

• Red Hat Linux
• Sun Solaris CDE
• Connecting via SSH

Using the Shell - it's not just for turtles anymore...

• Unix Tutorial for Beginners from the University of Surrey
• Prep - Prepare your account to run software or do class assignments
• Unix Manual Pages
• Changing your default UNIX shell, and why you might want to

Account information

• Computing time limits
• File space limits
• Preserving files from an old account

Programming

• Compiling programs

Handling Jobs

• Job Control: Running many programs simultaneously from one SSH session
• Running big jobs, issues and strategies
• Cpu time limit