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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
With the tremendous growth in computer science the School of Computer Science has made a notable investment in the OpenStack cloud platform. OpenStack is used by some SCS courses to provide students with their computing needs. Upper year courses have the option of learning to program OpenStack GPU servers. This year students can utilize... More
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Did you know that the SCS has a number of labs that can be used by Comp. Sci. students? If you are currently registered in a COMP course your campus card will give you access to HP4115 and for Sr. undergrads HP5151. The labs are a great place for group work or study in... More
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Symptoms of the VirtualBox macOS Security and Access Problems Cause of the Problem Solutions to the Problem Accessing Security & Privacy Settings SOLUTION 1: Allow Identified Apps to Access the System SOLUTION 2: Modify VirtualBox Permissions SOLUTION 3: Clean Re-install of VirtualBox Still Experiencing Problems? Symptoms of the VirtualBox... More
Thursday, October 3, 2019
What is an SSH Key Pair? Why use Key Pairs? Comparing Password vs Key Pair Authentication Creating Key Pairs Authenticating and Connecting with Key Pairs Advanced Topic: Configuring SSH SSH allows you to securely connect to remote computers and virtual machines. With SSH, you can use a computer remotely through the terminal, transfer files... More
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The School of Computer Science is investing in GPU computing with a purchase of a new GPU server that will facilitate running of undergraduate courses that require GPU computing. The new GPU server scheduled to come online in the Fall of 2019 will have eight 'GeForce RTX 2018 Super' video cards. The server will... More
Friday, September 13, 2019
This guide shows you how to set up a folder which will be shared between your host machine and your guest machine. For more information on transferring files between virtual machines, click here. For a video tutorial on Windows, click here. Setting Up the Shared Folder Select the guest machine you wish to share... More
Sometimes when VirtualBox is updated, or when a Virtual Machine is imported, a non-optimal Graphics Controller may be enabled in the Display Settings for the Virtual Machine. All of our Virtual Machines are designed with the VMSVGA Graphics Controller, which should typically provide the most stability and the best performance. To apply this VMSVGA... More
Is your virtual machine not launching, providing some kind of error, or has very poor performance? This may be caused by your operating system or motherboard settings. This issue can take many forms, so if you are experiencing any problems, you should start by checking your system's virtualization settings. Processor Virtualization must be enabled... More
Thursday, September 12, 2019
NOTE: This example uses putty, but the settings are the same for any tool using SSH, SCP, etc. Download Putty: here Use the following settings to make a terminal connection - Some of your settings will be different host: 134.117.216.10 - Replace this with your own instance's floating IP address username: student - default... More
Why You May Need a VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter What is a Virtual Network / Adapter? Setting Up a Virtual Host-only Network Adding a Host-Only Adapter to a Virtual Machine Find and Test your Host-Only Network IP Why You May Need a VirtualBox Host-Only Adapter Sometimes you would like to be able to network between... More
Monday, February 25, 2019
Microsoft Imagine gives students access to Microsoft professional-level products, particularly developer tools and operating systems, free of charge. Microsoft has re-branded their free software offer to Educational STEM departments as "Azure Dev. Tools for Teaching". You can now download the Microsoft Software directly from their Azure web store:... More
Monday, September 24, 2018
The School of Computer Science have invested resources into GPU computing by purchasing the world's most powerful Volta-based graphics card made for the PC. The NVIDIA Titan V GPU cards will be used by Carleton University Data Science courses in the areas of Big Data, Machine Learning, Artifical Intelligence, computer vision and related fields.... More
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