Computer Lab Documentation
Note:
We are in the process of replacing these pages with new pages.
Please see the
new lab documentation for more recent information.
For help, email: cscs.admins@umich.edu
Security on CSCS computers -- PLEASE READ.
CSCS Computer Lab FAQ and answers -- Please read
General Info about lab --
Hours lab is open and sys admin hours.
General Information for beginning users:
CSCS Computer Lab -- Conditions of Use
CSCS Lab Introduction (logins, passwords, remote use, etc.)
Red Hat Linux Manuals
Short introduction to unix, emacs, make, etc
Printing instructions
Use of Scratch Disks
File Backups IMPORTANT
How to Access Windows from Linux (Windows Terminal Services)
Tips and Recommendations for Personal Computers --
Use of CSCS Wireless
Configure Hummingbird Exceed for access to CSCS machines
Some documentation on using some devices under linux:
Using the Iomega zip and jaz drives
Using the floppy disk drive or CD Rom under Linux
Using the CSCS cd-rw to write a cd
For a list of software and applications, please look at our applications page
Online documentation for specific software:
Index of Swarm documentation
Index of RePast documentation
Xmgrace documentation (for Grace 5.1.1)
A short note on using Drone for doing experiments
How to do simple plots and analysis of simulation data.
CSCS 520 suite of programs
Other useful UNIX/Linux documentation/tutorials:
A unux quick reference
UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
A Basic UNIX Tutorial (Idaho State Univ)
Josh's GNU/Linux Guide
Please Note:
The Link Below is meant for users that run Linux on thier laptop
and want to learn to administer themselves.
Linux Documentation Project Guides
Other useful documentation:
Basic CVS commands
CVS/RCS Howto
Intro to Perl programming
An HTML Primer Tutorial
Quick Reference Page on HTML commands and definitions
The Java Tutorial (A practical guide for programmers)
The Java Tutorial Really Big Index
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v1.4.1 API Specification
Web based resources collection of many programming languages (Collection of FAQs and tutorials)
