The departmental Unix computers are maintained by the IT Services Research Computing Group. Our access to the research computing network is controlled by membership to the departmental mailing lists stat-fac, stat-grad and stat-visitors-sessionals. If you are a member of one of these lists, you have access to the network. Users new to Unix might consult a beginners Unix tutorial.
Login server
Login, or "terminal" servers, are computers you can access using an ssh client, such as PuTTY. Use these login servers to copy files to and from the network, access the compute servers, etc. A new Linux terminal server was set up in January, 2020:
For more information see this webpage.
Compute servers
Researchers have access to high-performance computing and large-scale storage facilities. For the most up-to-date information, please visit the Research Computing Group’s High Performance Computing page as well as the Compute Canada website.
Software Modules
Software on the Unix network is maintained through so-called modules. For a list of available modules, type module avail from the Unix command line. To use software such as R, you must first load the relevant module. E.g., typing
module load LANG/R/4.0.3
from the Unix command line loads the module containing R version 4.0.3. You can then type R from the Unix command line to start R.
