Computing Services
From BNL Physics Computing
The Physics Department Scientific Computing offers various services. Contact Brett Viren for additional information.
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Printing
A central CUPS print server is availble.
Web pages
The official department web page is maintained and served through ITD and is available at http://www.bnl.gov/Physics. In addition, the Physics department maintains its own web server which provides web space for a number of individuals and groups, either directly or through virtual hosts. More information is available here.
Calendars
Various calendars are maintained for scheduling resources or group related activities.
Ldap Authentication Server
Physics SC offers an LDAP server for storing user account information (home directory, shell, etc) and for authentication (passwd, shadow). Groups are welcome to migrate away from local account services to this centralized one particularly if they use insecure (NIS) or inconvenient (local /etc/passwd files) mechanisms. This centralized service will also help with some of the things we must now live with at BNL:
- automatically fulfilling DOE and federal laws for periodic auditing of accounts to determine if they are held by eligible individuals.
- responding to appointment terminations
SSH Gateway
A general SSH gateway is available at gateway.phy.bnl.gov. See the Remote Access topic for more information.
IMAP Server
The Dovecot IMAP server is available for those with accounts on home.phy.bnl.gov. You must use SSL on port 993 (or plaintext on home.phy's localhost:143), and authenticate with your username and password. It is only available on the internal network, but see the topic on using IMAP and SSH for how you can access this server from offsite. You may also use this server in conjunction with smail.bnl.gov which is described in this ITD page. It will serve your INBOX (/var/mail/username) as well as anything in ~/mail or ~/Mail. If your home directory is NFS mounted on home.phy.bnl.gov you can request a local Mail directory which will greatly speed up access.
Wireless Access
Wireless network access is generally available within the Physics Building (Building 510) and other locations on site. See the Wireless Access topic for more information.
Free Software Mirror and Scientific Software Package Repository
This provides access to the latest packages of popular GNU/Linux distributions as well as unique repositories of scientific software packages. It is available at http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/
