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Welcome to the Peyton Hall Documentation pages. In here, we hope to have information to help you understand and use the computer systems in Peyton Hall - though we're not limiting this system to only computer documentation either, so other things can be added too!

Computer documentation

The initial reason for this system - and the systems that have preceded it - is to store information in a searchable and indexed fashion relating to the computer systems in Peyton. You can use the "Search" box to the left to type in a subject, or error message, and hopefully find the answer you're seeking. You can also browse around the site to learn new things. You might try the articles on Hardware, Software, General UNIX info or Email, or maybe browse the categories for Unix Commands or Cluster Computing. If you like, you can look at the list of categories, or even the list of all pages.

If you do not find a solution here (make sure to try the "Search" box to the left, too!), feel free to drop an email to help@astro and ask. Or, if you know a solution to something that's not listed, let us know as well and we'll consider adding it here - or you can add it yourself through the interface, just login with your Peyton user name & password. If you'd like to be able to login, and do not have an account in Peyton Hall, let us know and we'll consider adding you as a "local" contributor.

Finally, while we finish getting everything indexed and categorized, this page serves as the starting point from the old FAQ-O-Matic pages. We've tried to keep the new articles organized in such a way that things still make sense starting from that page, but it will be going away when the last of things have been migrated.

Outside computer documentation

While we do our best to help in any way we can, some problems necessitate looking to resources outside the department.

The Office of Information Technology

Generally speaking, OIT is where you need to turn if your problem relates to anything outside astro.princeton.edu, but within princeton.edu.

Helpdesk

If you're having problems with an @princeton.edu e-mail account or issues accessing a non-astro.princeton.edu server or website, have a look at http://oitweb.princeton.edu/ for any current known outages on OIT's servers. Failing that, the OIT Helpdesk can be reached by phone at 8-HELP (that's 8-4357) from on campus, or 609-258-4357 from off.

If you're really not sure, ask us and we can usually point you in the right direction.

Clusters

With the exception of our own cluster, Hydra, more information on the clusters on campus can be found at the TIGRESS High Performance Computing Center website. This includes stats on the available clusters on campus and how to request access to them.

Other on-campus computing resources

While we strive to provide to our users as many in-house computing resources as possible, for a number of reasons some resources are better shared between departments. OIT hosts a number of computing resources in addition to the computing clusters.

• Computational Science and Engineering Support Group (CSES) provides pointers to some of the high-performance computing resources on campus
• Academic Services "supports the University community in the use of information technology in teaching, learning and research."
• Unix Systems handles pretty much all the Unix servers on campus with the exception of the clusters.