Desktop PCs with Linux HPC offers desktop installations with Debian Linux. The desktops are integrated into the HPC infrastructure: * central authentication ...
GSI Linux filesystems Home file systems For personal data like source code, analysis tools ... * All home file systems are backed up daily * Space is limi...
This page is automatically exported to https://www.gsi.de/work/administration/bit/service/linux/heimatverzeichnisse.htm IT Service: Linux Heimatverzeichnis ...
Mounting USB devices with pmount Usually USB devices are recognized and mounted automatically. If this does not happen, you may use pmount to mount the device man...
Remote Desktop Connections with X2go X2go allows graphical remote connections to our central interactive clusters comparable to the Windows Terminal Server access...
Introduction If you require python modules on farm machines that are not yet available there are 3 possible ways to get this fixed: 1 Check if the module has b...
Access Control Lists Die in der GSI Linux Farm verwendeten Dateisysteme unterstützen erweiterte Zugriffsrechte, sogenannte ACLs (Access Control Lists). Auf diese ...
Samba Access to Linux file systems via samba Available file systems Some Linux file systems are accessible via Samba from a server named samba. The following sh...
OpenSSL OpenSSL is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) network protocols and related cr...
Debian@GSI We are running Debian GNU/Linux, primarily release 8 (Jessie) at the moment. For further information on our road map take a look at the ReleasePlan. Re...
Linux at GSI Contact * The HPC Group announces operational issues over the GSI LINUX ALL mailing list! All owners of a LinuxAccount are automatically subscrib...
Software in /cvmfs Some scientific software suites are not available as Debian packages or the version packaged with Debian is too old or too new. Thus HPC provid...
How to print with CUPS Starting with Debian Squeeze we migrated to a new printserver https://cups.gsi.de:631 using the Common Unix Print System (CUPS). CUPS offer...
Unified Lustre mount point * beamer_UmzugLustre.pdf: Unified Lustre mount point Issue at hand * Lustre mount point names (/hera, /lustre/nyx, /lustre/hebe)...
Software Development Tools at GSI LinuxFarm For additionial software provided by several scientific groups see also SoftwareInCvmfs Compilers * GnuCompilers ...
Since older versions of Debian Linux are supported for a limited time only, we are forced to update all Linux systems at regular intervals. Debian Releases (→ Deb...
CernVM FS The distribution of custom software for user groups on the HPC infrastructure is provided using the Cern Virtual Machine File System (CernVM FS). CernV...
Debian mirror at GSI The HPC Department maintains a mirror of the Debian Archive for software deployment on the LinuxFarm. The archives are available for use insi...
First steps with Linux at GSI Numerous information about using your account at GSI is available on the official GSI web page: https://www.gsi.de/it service # Log...
Erste Schritte mit einem Linux Rechner der GSI Zahlreiche Informationen zur Verwendung eines Benutzerkontos der GSI finden sich auf der offiziellen GSI Webseite ...
Software policy On a Linux system, there's technically no problem to install software in arbitrary location i. e. your HomeDirectory. On the other hand it mig...
Citrix Receiver aka. icaclient We provide the client software to access the Windows Terminal Servers on all LinuxDesktops. The documentation available here it gen...
GsTore Existing archives 2017 12 13 lxi099:~$ /cvmfs/it.gsi.de/gstore/gstore64 show I get list of gStore archive names matching with '' 180 matching archiv...
gstore r3b archives //DocumentGraphics/go_back.gif GsTore /cvmfs/it.gsi.de/gstore/gstore64 show r3b I get list of gStore archive names matching with 'r3b' 4...
gstore Hades archives //DocumentGraphics/go_back.gif GsTore /cvmfs/it.gsi.de/gstore/gstore64 show hades I get list of gStore archive names matching with 'hades'...
gstore FOPI archives //DocumentGraphics/go_back.gif GsTore /cvmfs/it.gsi.de/gstore/gstore64 show fopi I get list of gStore archive names matching with 'fopi' ...
gstore CBM archives //DocumentGraphics/go_back.gif GsTore /cvmfs/it.gsi.de/gstore/gstore64 show cbm I get list of gStore archive names matching with 'cbm' 2...
gstore Alice archives //DocumentGraphics/go_back.gif GsTore I get list of gStore archive names matching with 'alice' 4 matching archives found: /alice2009ba...
Introduction Git is a version control system (VCS) similar to Subversion and CVS. The major difference compared to SubVersion (and the like) is its distributed ap...
Upgrade to DebianJessie A central lxjessie64.gsi.de cluster is available. As of 12/2017 Jessie desktops are the default desktops. DebianStretch desktops are still...
elog electronic logbook https://midas.psi.ch/elog is a web application developed at PSI. We host a central server with multiple separated instances of elog at htt...
Intel Compiler Suite GSI has licenses for the Intel Compiler Suite. Setup via CVMFS To setup the correct environment for the Intel Compiler Suite the environment...
Trailing white spaces when copying text When copying text from a Konsole window it may happen that the lines are as long as your terminal line length due to trail...
Customizing the Instant Messaging client PSI The default InstantMessaging client at GSI is Psi. Its appearance is highly customizable, so you can choose the color...
Installed Debian packages This package list for Debian Jessie was generated on 2016 12 09 Package Sections For an explanation of the sections see https://package...
Software Environment The primary source of software installed on HPC's Linux computers are Debian packages. For other software or additional versions we utilize C...
Installed Debian packages This package list for Debian Jessie was generated on 2016 12 09 Package Sections For an explanation of the sections see https://package...
Mathematica on Linux For Debian Lenny and older Mathematica is available in version 8. For Debian Squeeze and newer you can find version 8 (Squeeze only), 9 and 1...
Software in /usr/local The central /usr/local/ volume has been discontinued after DebianSqueeze. Please take a look at SoftwareInCvmfs instead. The old volume i...
Upgrade to Debian Squeeze Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) is the next to current Debian release. As of 2014 PrometheusCluster and all native Lustre clients are running Debia...
Upgrade to Debian Wheezy The current oldstable Debian version is called Wheezy. The Debian version is 7.x with x == 9 as of September 2015. If you are coming dire...
PDF documents PDF readers Since Adobe's decision to discontinue the Adobe Reader for Linux you'll have to use another tool for viewing PDF files, e.g. * xpdf ...
GSI Linux accounts Applying for an account Normally Linux accounts are created together with GSI Windows accounts, so if you have a Windows account or a mailbox ...
Customize the settings for the editor vim The editor vim supports a bunch of useful features. You may activate them during a session or set them as your personal ...
If you want to connect to eduroam from GSI without using Network Manager and the like, use this as your wpa_supplicant.conf and adjust identity and passwort accor...
Remote access to the GSI Linux Farm //DocumentGraphics/go_back.gif WebHome SSH The central InteractiveMachines (lxi...) can be accessed by SSH from outside. Li...