Welcome to UGCS!
UGCS is the student-run computing facility of the California Institute of Technology. Historically, UGCS was an educational facility within the Computer Science Department; the name stands for UnderGraduate Computer Science. We are now independent of the CS department, but we continue to provide computing resources to the Institute's undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. For more information about our past, we have put together a brief history of UGCS.
Tip of the day for 2010-02-10 :
You can now run cron jobs on UGCS shellservers. See our user cron documentation page for more details, or just run "crontab -e"
Services
For our users, we provide:
- Interactive login to our systems (Debian linux)
- A computer lab in the basement of Winnett
- Email access by POP and IMAP
- Email aliases and mailing lists
- Web site space on our servers
For more information about our cluster and how to use its services, please see our user documentation
News
For older news, please go to the news archive.
January 6, 2009
Office hours for this term will start next week and run from 7:30-9pm.
December 2, 2009
Office hours tonight will run from 7:15-8:00pm.
November 4, 2009
The Mortals cluster is back up.
October 18, 2009
We had some brief downtime on posiedon, our webserver, this morning from 9:30 to 11:30. All services should be back up- please let us know if you have problems.
October 6, 2009
We are going to start holding Office hours in UGCS. Current office hours times are Wednesdays 7:30pm - 9pm, but are subject to change- see the page for updates. Come by to say hi, get your password reset, or ask questions about Linux or UGCS.
September 27, 2009
We are currently migrating to Postgres 8.3. For portions of tonight, postgres may be down, and changes made may be lost.
Update: 11:59pm The migration should be complete, and databases should connect to 8.3 by default.
September 13, 2009
We will be migrating to Postgresql 8.3 in a few weeks. To help you make this migration, we have set up a Postgres 8.3 server at postgres:5433. Please test your applications against this new database. See Postgres migration for more information. As always, contact us if you have any questions.
August 22, 2009
A "phising" email was just sent to many UGCS users which asks you to reply with a username and password. Do not reply to this message- it is a scam. UGCS sysadmins will never ask you for your password.
August 19, 2009
We have set /afs/.ugcs/ugcs-admin to be world-readable. You can now look through the various utilites we have written to help automate the cluster administration. Over the next few months, we will be setting up a website to better document the code we have written.
We also have a read-only copy of our svn repository available at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/svn, or you can access it at file:///afs/.ugcs/ugcs-admin/svn We're quickly adding our projects to it, so check back often!
August 14, 2009
Over the next day or two, we will be rebooting our shellservers with a new setup. This will improve their speed and usability, but will result in some downtime in various shellservers. Contact us if you're planning on running and long-term jobs. <math>Insert formula here</math>
Sysadmins
UGCS is administered by the UGCS sysadmins:
- Joshua Hutchins (jdhutchin),
- Matthew Maurer (maurer),
- Alex Roper (alexr).
The sysadmins can be contacted at sysadmins at ugcs dot caltech dot edu.
Other
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