Computer Science FAQ

These accounts are available only to CS faculty and to CS graduate students doing research with those faculty. To gain an account on the cluster, you need to have your sponsoring faculty member send an email message to help /@/ cs.gmu.edu requesting an account for you. The computer science department offers accounts on various systems:

• The Hydra Cluster consists of some sixty dual- and quad-processor Linux machines connected to a server at hydra.cs.gmu.edu . These machines are intended to support research experiments.
• The department has available a 7.2TB XServe RAID machine (xserve.vsnet.gmu.edu) with no backup guarantees. More on accessing this server.

In some situations you may obtain a private account on a faculty member's internal lab machine.