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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For Fall 2018 the School of Computer Science have introducing a new SCS data cloud service called Nextcloud. The idea is to integrate access to all storage in one place. The Nextcloud service allows Computer Science Faculty, TAs, Lab Coordinators and Students to manage all their data from one place. Users will be able... More
The SCS Open Stack Compute Servers received a storage and RAM upgrade over this summer. Most of the core compute servers now have 3.6TB of SSD storage and have 188GB of RAM. In total the SCS Open Stack infrastructure has: 740 vCPU's 3.3TB of RAM 52TB of local disk storage More Information: SCS... More
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