Cluster rules & etiquette

Amy Keating, a BE faculty member, administers coyote. She has four rules for the cluster:

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• You can ssh to coyote only from MIT IP addresses. This means you either need to be on campus or be connected via the MIT VPN. (This was to mitigate security attacks on the cluster.)
• The default shell on coyote is tcsh. To change to bash, issue: chsh -p /bin/bash my_username. You might need to use usermod rather than chsh.

Getting started

• Wiki MarkupEmail Greg (a.k.a. "\[greg\]") [mailto:bio-admin@techsquare.com]. Greg will request confirmation that you're in the lab, so it's best if you immediately cc a lab member that Greg already knows.
• Consider adding coyote to you ~/.ssh/config file.
• Consider joining the coyote-users mailman list.
• Make sure you understand the difference between the head node and the queues before you start doing any work.

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To: coyote-users@mit.edu
From: bio-admin@techsquare.com
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 08:54:49 -0400
Subject: coyote returns

hello coyote users-

one of the storage-machines at coyote
fell over yesterday, rendering coyote
pretty much useless.

i believe that we are returned to service
now, but please let me know if you notice
anything untowards...

Wiki Markup\[greg\]