Research
Computing Support
Artificial Intelligence Group
University of Toronto
The point of contact
(POC) for all computing needs for the AI group is Relu Patrascu. CSLab
maintains computing infrastructure, such as file servers, email and web
servers, etc. Relu will help you with all your computing issues
that do not fall under the auspices of CSLab.
Current contact information for Relu:
Office: Pratt 396C
Phone: (416) 946-8487
Email: pocai [at] cs.toronto.edu
Overview
Most machines are running Ubuntu 8.04 (long term support), but we're
in the process of upgrading to 10.04.
Facts about the Linux environment
- the Linux distributions used are Ubuntu LTS 8.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS
- up to
date operating system, libraries, software, user interface
- actively maintained and updated
- every computer has a name such as name.ais.sandbox, denoting that
it lives inside a local subnet, not seen from outside (the internet
at large)
- more secure
- to connect to it from outside campus, an ssh connection must be
made first to a CSLab time share server such as
apps0.cs.toronto.edu
apps1.cs.toronto.edu
apps2.cs.toronto.edu
apps3.cs.toronto.edu
and then another ssh connection to name.ais.sandbox
- the home directory is mounted; these directories
are backed up
- work directories (e.g. /w/199) of each group are mounted if
permission was give to the POC; these directories are not
backed up
- special purpose directories such as /cs/lists or /var/mail
are not mounted on machines running the new operating system. There
are various ways to read email; see the support pages at
support.cs.toronto.edu for more
details
More technical information
Maintainer: Relu Patrascu pocai [at] cs.toronto.edu