Starting in David's group

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  • Administrative
    • If you're a foreigner on J1 visa: you need ISSS to get your SEVIS entry OKed before you can apply for a social security number. After this, you have to wait until a day that is at least 10 days after your entry into the US, and 48 hours after ISSS has made the entry. You need to bring your DS2019 to ISS and your passport with the I94.
    • You will have an appointment at Human Resources on the ground floor of the Engineering 2 building (=our building) where you will have to fill out and sign tons of forms. They might also give you a campus map
    • Use the map to get to the University ID office, they will print your ID card (it is located at the intersection of Steinhart / Hager roads) see also campus map http://interactivemap.ucsc.edu/
    • Go to see Al McGuire in the Baskin Engineering building (the old building just in front) in room 399 amcguire@soe.ucsc.edu to get your card activated
    • You should have an SOE account / SOE email address, this should have been done automatically via human resources or Branwyn
    • You will receive cruzID registration emails
      • define your passwords and you're set
      • redirect your cruzId emails to your SOE account
    • Subscribe to these two mailing lists
  • Technical
    • Add the "oops" printer (yes this is the DNS name), select the IPP protocol if asked
  • Clusters
    • swarm : ~ 200 nodes, 4 CPUs each 8GB RAM
    • encodek : 5 nodes, 4 CPUs each, 16GB RAM
    • memk : 8 nodes, 2 CPUs each, 32 GB RAM
  • Account config
    • use /cluster/install/utilities/chsh to change your shell to bash
    • copy ~hiram/.bashrc.hiram to your homedir and add the line "source .bashrc.hiram" to your own .bashrc file
    • If you have any problems with your account, email cluster-admin@soe.ucsc.edu
    • Read Cluster Jobs and "Where is everything" and "Parasol Manual"
    • You might want to add these statements as well:
 complete -o default -W "create push try shove make check stop chill finished hung slow crashed failed status problems running hippos time recover priority maxJob resetCounts freeBatch showSickNodes clearSickNodes" para