Computer accounts you have

The Department of Computer Science runs two separate computing facilities: one for research computing, one for instructional computing. The research facility is called CSLab. The instructional computing facility is now called "teach.cs" or "Teaching Labs" (but was until recently called CDF, in case you hear that name).

CSLab account

For research computing, you have created a CSLab account which enables you to ssh to "cs.toronto.edu". This is actually a nickname for the computer "apps0.cs.toronto.edu". There is also apps1. These "application servers" are meant for lightweight computing tasks such as e-mail, editing files, and small program runs.

There are also "computation servers". Some of these are quite substantial machines. Their specifications are described at https://support.cs.toronto.edu/systems/linuxcompute.html . Some of them can be logged in to at any time; others are allocated with a "job scheduling" system so that you can have sole use of a powerful machine. All is described on that web page.

Please restrict your use of the apps machines to interactive, low-cpu-using applications. Computationally-intensive and/or long-running processes should be run on the comps machines, because they have more CPU power and because they are used less interactively.

You must read your CSLab e-mail regularly, either at CSLab or by forwarding it to somewhere you do read. I wrote a web page all about that.

Teaching Labs account

You might get an account at "teach.cs" if you are taking a course which makes use of that facility. Many graduate courses use research computing facilities instead. But if you are taking a teach.cs-using course, you will get an account on the teach.cs machines. The name of the account will be the same as your UTORid, but other than a coincidence of names the account is separate.

If you are a TA for a teach.cs-using course, you will get a separate TA account at the instructional computing facility. These accounts' names begin with a 't' and then a digit indicating the year it was created; so your TA account probably begins "t3".

Teaching Labs passwords can be set or reset via https://www.teach.cs.toronto.edu/account (TA and student accounts only)

UTORid

I think you already know that you have a UTORid, and an e-mail address of the form firstname.lastname@mail.utoronto.ca. The point of this section of this web page is that this is an entirely separate thing, run by the central U of T IT folks, and isn't used much at the Department of Computer Science.

We've been doing computing and computer accounts much longer than the central U of T IT folks, so we mostly continue to do things our own way. Often our way of doing things is superior, at least for research computing purposes.

I suggest forwarding your firstname.lastname@mail.utoronto.ca e-mail to your CSLab account. But one way or another, definitely do read it too, because you will get notices there from SGS.