Hi,

   You have an account on the D'Agents Group cluster of machines 
which are located in the machine room in the Sudikoff building 
on the Dartmouth campus.
The names (and aliases) of the machines are:

   -----outside world ------  1st subnet 2nd subnet
   agentm.cs.dartmouth.edu    agentc01   agentcc01
   agentc02.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc02   agentcc02
   agentc03.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc03   agentcc03
   agentc04.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc04   agentcc04
   agentc05.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc05   agentcc05
   agentc06.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc06   agentcc06
   agentc07.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc07   agentcc07
   agentc08.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc08   agentcc08
   agentc09.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc09   agentcc09
   agentc10.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc10   agentcc10
   agentc11.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc11   agentcc11
   agentc12.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc12   agentcc12
   agentc13.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc13   agentcc13
   agentc14.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc14   agentcc14
   agentc15.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc15   agentcc15
   agentc16.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc16   agentcc16
   agentc17.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc17   agentcc17
   agentc18.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc18   agentcc18
   agentc19.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc19   agentcc19
   agentc20.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc20   agentcc20
   agentc21.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc21   agentcc21
   agentc22.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc22   agentcc22
   agentc23.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc23   agentcc23
   agentc24.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc24   agentcc24
   agentc25.cs.dartmouth.edu  agentc25   agentcc25

They are all running RedHat Linux 6.2 (soon to be 7.0).  
Agentm is the server where your home directory is mounted.
Your home directory is also mounted via NFS on any of
the other machines.  If you need local disk space on
any of the machines use the directory /data.
The machines are interconnected via two networks; you
can use the "cc" names (as in agentcc25) to get
access via the second network.  Currently all NFS
traffic is on this network so it's probably best to
not use it unless you have a specific reason to.
   Your user name and password are as we discussed on the phone.
Please change your password when you first log in.
We use NIS to maintain a password database so use
yppasswd instead of the passwd command to change your
password.
The cluster is protected by a firewall so we'll need to
know the IP addresses (or a range of IP addresses)
for which to allow access.
   Time on the cluster usually has to be scheduled so
that experiments don't interfere with each other.
Contact the sys admins via email (listed below) to
arrange a time slot.
   The home directories are backed up daily, except on 
weekends.  There is also a disk-to-disk backup made at 
around 2am each night that you can access yourself at 
/u1/backup/home/<username> if you ever accidentally 
delete a file you need.  Don't use this area to 
store new files though, since they will be overwritten 
each night.  The /data areas are not backed up at all,
so don't leave anything critical there.
   Currently agentc03 is connected to the rest of the
cluster on the first network (the "c" network, not the
"cc" network) via a 10Mbps hub.  Thus agentc03 can
be used for experiments where you want to limit the
bandwidth to 10Mbps.  Agentc04 has been renamed to
"agentserver" and is connected to the first network
via a PC running DummyNet which is used as a bandwidth
manager.  With the appropriate settings for DummyNet
you can vary the bandwidth to agentserver between zero
and about 3Mbps (it probably isn't reliable at speeds
much higher than that.  We definitely know it can't
keep up with 10Mbps.)  There's more information
about DummyNet at:

   http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/

We also have scripts that make it easy to set a
specific speed for DummyNet located in:

   /home/serval/study.004/scalable/dummynet

The status.sh script there will tell you the current
state of the settings.  The init.sh script should be
run before using any of the other scripts.

   We require that you use SSH and SCP for remote access 
instead of ftp and telnet.  See

   http://agent.cs.dartmouth.edu/internal/sshguide.html

for a guide to using ssh.  You'll have to enter a username
and password to access this page: 

   user "agent" password "secretpassword"

A Mac version of ssh and scp is available for free at:

   http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/

and versions for other OS's are available for free at:

   http://www.ssh.com
   (click on their "noncommercial" button in the store, Mac version
   might be available from them soon.)

The default shell is bash.  If you'd like another email us.
If you have any trouble getting in or using your account please 
let either Arne Grimstrup (arne@cs.dartmouth.edu) or 
Ron Peterson (rapjr@cs.dartmouth.edu) know.

    Ron Peterson
    rapjr@cs.dartmouth.edu
    Senior Programmer/Sys Admin D'Agents Group