OVERVIEW

Developmental, Shared Memory platform, Supports gnuplot, latex, etc.

PROCESSORS

32 500MHz MIPS chips

RAM

24 GB Shared Memory

CONNECTION

CRAY-LINK hypercube Fast Ethernet

STORAGE

1 TB SCSI-IDE RAID 180 GB FC RAID

Homestead is an Origin 300 supercomputer from SGI containing 32 processors and 24 GB of RAM. The computer is physically located in the Schorr Center on UNL's City campus, and is used by researchers in many departments for a wide variety of uses.

Note to users
For security reasons, we require that users use secure shell - ssh and scp - instead of telnet and ftp. When you use telnet or ftp, your password is transfered through the network in plan text format, making it possible to sniff your password and other important information. Secure shell encrypts your information and transfers it securely through the network. The usage is:

• ssh username@homestead.unl.edu
• scp username@remote_host:path_to_file ./ will copy a remote file to the current dir.

Please use ssh -h and scp -h for help. For Windows users, we suggest putty as a good ssh client.