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Departmental Computer Network
Main Server
The central computer service is provided on a Quad AMD Opteron server with 16GB DDR RAM and RAID-50 400GB disk array running RedHat Enterprise Linux.
This system supports E-mail server, WebMail portal and numerous other network server functions.
Webserver runs on a Quad AMD Quad Core Opteron server with 32 GB or RAM.
Important notes:
- A secure shell is installed on 'alchemy'.
Secure shell enables encrypted communication between your local machine and 'alchemy'. If you
connect to 'alchemy' from outside of the Department over the Internet, the secure shell connection
is to be used exclusively. Telnet access for outside connections will be disabled on Apr. 1,
2004.
If you have any further questions, please refer to our telnet and secure shell FAQ before contacting us. - An online secure shell application AppGate MindTerm is available here. The applet will work under Netscape or Internet explorer and a user guide is also provided in Adobe PDF format.
News Server
USENET news server is run on a separate Dual Opteron machine with 1GB RAM. Regular newsgroups are kept for 14 days, groups of special interest up to a year. Please, contact fbures@chem.toronto.edu if you want to keep a particular newsgroup longer than 14 days.
Printers
Printers in the library are accessible during school hours for undergraduate students or visitors and 24/7 for all graduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff (provided they have the proper keys).
Library Workstation Printers
HP Laserjet 4050N (black and white)
Lexmark C750
(colour)
The Laserjet and the Lexmark printers are ONLY available from our library workstations and require users to have a copy card. For faculty/staff, copy cards can be purchased from Helen Salvarinas (LM154) and students/visitors should obtain the same cards from Patricia Meindl (library - DB480)
Printing costs are as follows:
| Faculty/Staff | Students/Visitors | |
| Black and white printouts | 1 unit per page | $.10 per page |
| Colour printouts | 15 units per page | $1.00 per page |
Miscellaneous
Some research groups have their own HP, SGI, IBM or Sun Unix workstations, and almost all groups have PCs and/or Macs available. All the Unix workstations and PCs/Macs are attached to the departmental Ethernet network, which gives full Internet access through the U/Toronto campus network.
There are public displays available in library, LM 480. See the manager of the Electronics and Computing Facility (Frank Bures), in room LM 436B to get a computer account on the departmental system (e.g. for e-mail) - only U/Toronto Chemistry faculty, staff, post-docs and graduate students can get accounts, and the filled form signed by the supervisor is required. Forms are available here.
The system also provides Anonymous FTP access to PC and Mac networking software, and some other software written by Departmental research groups. Large archive of PC oriented shareware and freeware for Win32, Linux (both i386 and Alpha) and OS/2 including official current RedHat patches and distributions and Microsoft patches can be also found at Electronics Shop Anonymous FTP. The archive is only accessible from the utoronto.ca domain.
The Departmental Electronics Shop is on the 4'th floor of the Lash Miller building and provides all electronics design and repair services for research groups, graduate and undergraduate students. The shop can design and build virtually any electronics equipment from simple power supplies to high speed digital circuitry and high power/high voltage analog devices.
The manager of the Electronics and Computing Facility is Frank Bures, P.Eng. (fbures@chem.toronto.edu), LM 436B, phone 978-5257.