These accounts are available only to CS faculty and to CS graduate students doing research with or acting as TAs for those faculty. To gain an account on one of these clusters, 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:

CS Cluster Diagram
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  • The CS Cluster is a collection of 14 Linux and SunOS machines in the department connected via Myrinet. Three of these machines are directly accessible to you in room 422 of the Science and Technology II Building. All of the machines may be used from remote login (via ssh) and you can use them for any (reasonable) purpose. The machines are: cs1.gmu.edu (a dual-processor SunOS machine), and various linux computers: csa, csb, csc, csd, cse, csf, csg, csh, csj, csk, csl, csm, and csn.gmu.edu. Note that there is no csi.gmu.edu .
  • 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.
  • Certain CS Windows Machines are available upon request as well, including machines on room 422.
  • The department has available a 7.2TB XServe RAID machine (xserve.vsnet.gmu.edu) with no backup guarantees.

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