Updated: 15 Apr 2007

Support for UNIX at SLAC consists of fully-supported central services for user authentication, file servers, mail, news, name, time, and print services. A number of servers provide interactive login service for general computing use. Most desktop UNIX systems are supported as dataless clients of the central services; support beyond that level is the responsibility of the individual groups. A compute farm is provided for all users to provide high-performance computing and bulk tape and disk data storage.

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15 Apr 2008 How to SLAC afs token from offsite hosts
15 Apr 2008 End of Kerberos4 and kaserver (klog) service.
17 Aug 2007 Information about Taylor.
08 Aug 2007 Upcoming ssh upgrade.
13 Mar 2007 New page on OS update policies on Linux systems.
16 Oct 2006 New page on securely erasing data Secure Erase in UNIX.
22 Sep 2006 New page on security issues for VNC in UNIX.
24 Feb 2006 Ganglia is now monitoring machines for the PetaCache project.
11 Nov 2005 Announcement on Discontinuing Central Support for X-terminals.