Computing Documentation

Email lists and contact points in TCM.

Booklets

• TCM's Introduction to Computing in TCM
• Introduction to UNIX

Hardware

• Your Computer and its processor
• UniOfCam and Eduroam, the wireless network service for laptops.
• Plover, the IPP printing service for laptops, and paying for printing and photocopying
• The Contents of Room 523
• Bigger computers hiding in TCM (and a similar list of desktops)
• TCM's two clusters
• Laptop Purchasing
• General printing and printing costs.
• A0 printing
• Servers supporting TCM's IT infrastructure.
• Notes on personal Macs

Data Storage

• Backups
• External storage providers
• (Temporary) data storage
• CD/DVD burning
• USB memory sticks

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Software

• Group software licences
• Software available for home use, including Mathematica. Also a list of commercial software.
• Zoom (and other videoconferencing solutions)
• Dropbox
• Software and multiple versions
• Installing your own (programs, fonts, LaTeX packages, python packages, ...)
• Julia
• Running (large) jobs
• Running jupyter remotely

Graphics

• arbitrary fonts in gnuplot and xmgrace
• xmgrace and white boxes around figures
• LaTeX fragments in xfig
• pm3d output in Gnuplot
• Screen and window grabbing
• Extracting figures from documents
• Graphics formats
• Molecules in 2D, the drawing thereof
• PostScript
• PDF
• Bézier curves

LaTeX

• LaTeX, and LaTeX page sizes
• the University's House Style in LaTeX
• LaTeX fragments in xfig
• Simple Gantt charts in LaTeX

Programming

• TCM's Compilers
• Mixing Fortran Compilers
• MPI
• Debugging
• Fortran (basic)
• Fortran Standards (not basic)
• C Standards (not basic)
• Castep
• Crystal
• ScaLAPACK
• Siesta
• Visualising CASTEP output
• Lapack and other maths libraries
• MatLab
• NAG (numerical libraries) (if that link fails, which it will because most browsers refuse to follow links from a remote site to a local file, try cutting-and-pasting file:///usr/local/shared/nag/NAGdoc/index.html)
• Linpack performance: Fortran, C, C++, Matlab, python, etc.
• Numerical Integration
• Software and multiple versions (particularly Intel compilers, Mathematica, and Jmol)

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Services

• Email
• Personal Computers Visiting TCM (network access, printing, email and www)
• Remote access using ssh
• Remote access using VNC
• IT Support email address: [email protected]... (or, equivalently, [email protected]...)

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The Web

• Web profile pages
• Writing your own web page
• Hosting large files
• Writing shared research pages
• Notes on making web pages Google mobile friendly
• Technical details of:
  • Shared pages on the web server
  • Shared profiles
  • File system layout on the web server
  • Maintaining news

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Miscellaneous

• UTF-8
• Molecular file formats: pdb, xyz and friends
• Some elderly notes on computer technology including crude benchmarks of TCM machines

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Rules

• Conduct expected - the boring rules and guidelines.
• Personal machines:
  • Connection rules - for personal machines.
  • The Dangers of Computers - how to get hacked
  • Remote access - done safely and securely
  • Security explained