Most important CS technical pages (URLs) and more

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/how-to-contact-helpdesk.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/getting-started.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/computing-resources-for-graduate-students.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/labadmin-handbook.html

(protected)http://www.cs.sfu.ca/research/resources.html

 

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/tips.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/tips/course-mail-lists.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/tips/door-access.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/tips/data-projectors.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/tips/print-photocopy-scan.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/tips/laptops.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/tips/remote-to-linux-with-gui.html

 

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/general.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/policies.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/what-is-new.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/hardware.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/csil-directions.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/how-to-print.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/how-to-remote-access-to-csil.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/how-to-use-cs-lab-console.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/how-to-use-subversion.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/how-to-use-subversion/svn-tutorial.html

 

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/software.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/known-issues-page.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-use-windows-terminal-server.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-use-visualstudio.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-use-sql.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-transfer-database.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-use-iis.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-get-software.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-install-software.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-capture-video.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/windows/how-to-use-xpmode.html

 

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/unix.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/unix/software.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/unix/known-issues-page.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/unix/how-to-kill-unix-processes.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/unix/how-to-use-csil-linux-terminal-server.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/unix/how-to-use-csil-linux-cpu-server.html

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/about/support/csil/unix/networking-lab.html

 

The digital assets:

http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/computing/csil/ASB9000.jpg

http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/computing/csil/csil_rooms_burnaby.pdf

http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/computing/csil/csil_layout_burnaby.pdf

http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/computing/csil/csil_lab_schedule_burnaby.pdf

 

The RCG documents:

http://www.rcg.sfu.ca/workstations/ubuntu/

http://www.rcg.sfu.ca/colony/modules

http://www.rcg.sfu.ca/workstations/admin-privileges.html

If you need to compile your own software, use something like
     ./configure --prefix=/cs/<thislab>/software
... so that you can maintain the software you need without requiring sudo/root privileges.

Useful commands

 see johnny's UsefulCommands page on SFU wiki site.

a few in-service systems of the School compared (as of 2017.04.10)

  CPU
RAM
GPU Remarks
Optiplex 7010
Core i7- 3770

16GB

(4x 4GB DDR3 1600MHz)

NA could handle 75W no-AUX-required graphics card
Optiplex 9020       could handle 75W no-AUX-required graphics card
Precision T3500
Xeon W3550

12GB

(3x 4GB DDR3 ECC 1333MHz)

nVidia Quadro 600 (CUDA compute capability 2.1) the CPU is basically the first generation of Core i7
XPS 8700 Core i7-4770

vary

(uses DDR3 1600MHz modules)

vary
 

last updated @ 2017.09.01