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General Purpose Linux Servers

New General Purpose Linux Servers

We are in the process of updating our General purpose Linux computing environment. We will keep both environments up at the same time for a while. The transition schedule will be posted here. The new servers run Scientific Linux and require VPN access when connecting from off campus. 

When your SECS account is created, you are given a shell account on all of our Linux servers. The intended use of the General Purpose Linux Servers are to:

  1. Provide educational access to the installed software
  2. Give students the opportunity to work in a Linux environment
  3. Run long running or computationally intensive jobs.

Available Servers

beatles.secs.oakland.edu is intended to load balance and will give you the Linux server that will offer the most free resources.

If you wish to log into a specific server you will want to log into:

  • ringo.secs.oakland.edu
  • harrison.secs.oakland.edu

legacy servers are still currently available:

  • login.secs.oakland.edu (until 1-1-2013)
  • janus.secs.oakland.edu
  • pandora.secs.oakland.edu

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Accessing the Servers

There are several methods for logging into these servers. 

IMPORTANT: For off-campus access to these servers you MUST first be logged into the SECS VPN

Transferring Files to and From the Server

Our Linux environment mounts the SECS Network drive as your home directory. View the "Accessing your network drive" section on the SECS Network Drives page for more information about transferring files.

IMPORTANT: For off-campus access to these servers you MUST first be logged into the SECS VPN

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Software

  • Matlab
  • Comsol
  • Netbeans
  • Eclipse
  • Libre Office
  • Cadence
*Multiple versions may be available.

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Programming Environments

  • Java
  • Python
  • gcc
  • Latex
*Multiple versions may be available.

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