>From: hanson@math.uic.edu
>Date: 30 Jan 2003 17:53:34 -0600
>To: hanson@math.uic.edu
>Subject: MCS 572 S03 Argo with X-Windows Information

FYI Class,

More information from ACCC Clusterman, M. Homa:
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One other thing. Every user, yourself included, has access to a GUI on the
cluster. The command to access the GUI is scadesktop and the configuration
file for it is in your ~HOME/.scali directory. The GUI requires an 
X-window or X-window emulation package like Exceed, which I use and is on
all ACCC computers. To access the cluster GUI:

  o Set your DISPLAY environmental variable to the X-window server (in my
    case, that is my desktop machine which runs Exceed)
  o Start the X-window emulation package
  o Enter scadesktop command on the cluster
  o Double click on the argo 16-node icon in the Scali Universe screen
  o Enter your netid and password in the Login screen
 
The "Scali Universe - argo 16 node screen" will appear. This the main
screen of the GUI.
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Note: We Probably will be working on clusters in this order:

PSC TCS, UIC Argo or Alternate, NCSA Platinum

to work with a well-developed cluster first and our biggest cluster
last so we make make the most intelligent use of Platinum (currently
listed with 968 compute processors (484 compute nodes with a SMP 4-pack of
processors each, but we will only be able to use a fraction of those for
any one project and that is still a lot).

HappyClusterComputing,
FBH


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