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