The PPD Linux and Windows systems are behind the RAL site firewall so for offsite access you need to either use the RAL VPN or use the PPD SSH Bastion host. Access...
How to use SSH keys with PuTTY This article describes how to use PuTTY for passwordless SSH access via public/private key pairs. Open the PuTTYgen utility which...
Network Drive Mapping If you think any information on this website needs update or change, please contact PPD IT Helpdesk In PPD there are a number of network drives...
This page is also available as a Computer Support Document. SSH access to Windows Terminal Server The PPD Windows Terminal Server, hepwints.pp.rl.ac.uk (AKA hepwin...
Group and Experiment NFS Storage Areas Under /opt/ppd are a number of NFS mounted areas for share group or experiment software or small amounts of data. Files in these...
Linux Home Directories PPD Computing provides a personal home directory for users of the Linux systems whichwill be available from the interactive servers, the cluster...
Vidyo The CERN IVR service allows you to easily connect to a Vidyo meeting in any of the RAL (and DL) meeting rooms. This will use the Vidyo to H.323 gateway, so you...
Using the PPD Linux User Interfaces The PPD Linux cluster currently has 9 front end user interfaces, two general, five experiment and two test: Node OS...
Welcome to the 1 web Welcome to the PPD Computing Documentation TWiki This area is currently under construction but we hope to migrate all the current user documentation...
How to contact PPD IT Helpdesk? There are two ways to contact us, you can either: send us an e mail: PPDITHELPDESK #64;stfc.ac.uk or call us: x5074 For Scientific...
Why aren`t my batch jobs starting? The RALPP Batch system uses the Maui scheduler to fairly allocate CPU resources between users, groups and Tier 2 (Grid) and Tier...
Web and Other Such Services Hepunx web server The general web server is accessible at: http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/ User Webs You can have a personal web page on hepunx...
Condor works differently to many other batch systems so it is advised that you have a look at the Manual. We are currently only supporting the `Vanilla` universe....
PuTTY, Exceed, SSH PuTTY PuTTY is in fact a suite of programs (see the help available within PuTTY for details) and these are all available via the command...
Virtual Private Network: PPTP You can connect to the site network via the PPTP virtual private network. Your computer will then behave mostly as if it was physically...
Email Setup If you think any information on this website needs update or change, please contact PPD IT Helpdesk Contents: E mail information IMAP and...
VPN setup on Linux The following instructions are for Ubuntu. Other distros may require a slightly different procedure. Open the System menu and go to Preferences...
The PPD Batch System The PPD Batch Systems are shared between the Grid Tier 2 and Local usage (often referred to as Tier 3). Since the switch to Sl6 the batch system...
KevinDunford 2014 01 24 Video Conferencing software the webcams have been tested on WebCam (Windows) Vidyo Skype Cisco Jabber SeeVough Microsoft LifeCam...
Printing If you think any information on this website needs update or change, please contact PPD IT Helpdesk Contents: List of printers in PPD Print queues...
The PPD dCache Storage Element DCache is the main disk storage system in us on the PPD Unix/Linux systems. It allows us to aggregate the storage space on many servers...
Open AFS Connecting to RAL AFS in Windows 7 Install OpenAFS To obtain a new AFS token you need to log in. Start a Windows command prompt session (Start...
Laptop Encryption All laptops in STFC must be encrypted with the Pointsec software. To enrypt a laptop with Pointsec just follow the steps below: login tolaptop...
How to change your STFC password There are a number of ways to change your STFC password. For a Windows laptop/desktop user that is currently using an STFC network...
Accounts on the PPD Linux systems are available (including to visitors and facility users) on completion of the attached form. Please fill it in and sign it (plus...
EVO Video Conferencing If you think any information on this website needs update or change, please contact PPD IT Helpdesk Evo H.323 settings RoomBuildingLocationExtension...
Anti Virus Software Before any computer is allowed on the PPD network, it must have virus protection. PPD uses Sophos Anti Virus for both Windows and Mac computers...
Computing/Documentation Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the Computing/Documentation web. These preferences overwrite the site...
The PPD Subversion Code Repository (HepSVN) PPD Computing group runs a subversion service for projects in PPD. This runs the subversion service on to of the apache...
Using the Batch System You can use the standard PBS commands and http://www.clusterresources.com/torquedocs/commands/qstat.shtml qstat to submit and query jobs...
The PPD Unix/Linux systems have a number of different data storage areas and technologies for storing different volumes and type of data The Home File System...
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