ACF Scientific Visualization Lab

NOTE: The information here has been put together with the generous help of Adel Hanna.

WEB PAGES:

http://www.nyu.edu/acf/science/

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/scivis/

POLICY:

-- Please read the following carefully.

-- First, read the general policy in the above web pages.

-- Use the class account only for class work.

-- You may apply for a separate account from the ACF for your own other work.

-- Printing of manual pages is limited to 100 pages a day. (be considerate and print off peak hours)

LOCATION: The workstations are in two rooms:
-- The Scientific Visualization Lab, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 317
-- The Innovation Center, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 201.
-- NOTE: The Innovation Center has other facilities and is intended for faculty and staff use. It is extended to class use, courtesy of the ACF. Please use this with consideration.

MACHINES:

The main server is called RIEMANN, a 4-processor R-10000 machine with half a Gigabyte of main memory. You can telnet to "scivis.nyu.edu", and this put you into RIEMANN. No other machines can be accessed this way.
The number of machines is limited, so try to remote login (say, from your CS account) whenever possible.

The Scientific Visualization Cluster comprise several SGI workstations running the IRIX operating system:

riemann IRIX 6.4	remote login server
archimedes IRIX 6.2	WWH Room 317 (Sci Vis Lab)
euclid IRIX 6.2	WWH Room 317
fermat IRIX 6.3	WWH Room 317
leonardo IRIX 6.2	WWH Room 317
feynman IRIX 6.3	WWH Room 317
babbage IRIX 6.2	WWH Room 317
pauling IRIX 6.3	WWH Room 317
abel IRIX 6.4	WWH Room 317
descartes IRIX 5.3	WWH Room 317
hypatia IRIX 6.2	WWH Room 201 (Innovation Center)
noether IRIX 6.4	WWH Room 201
napier IRIX 6.3	WWH Room 201

PRINTERS:
-- The IRIX print command is "lp" (AT&T unix), rather than "lpr" (BSD unix).
-- Visualization Lab : vislab_hp4si (usage: "lp -dvislab_hp4si file")
-- Innovation Center: wwh_hp4si (usage: "lpr -Pwwh_hp4si file")
NOTE: wwh_hp4si is currently not yet ready.
-- Innovation Center: p550 (Stictly Color Only, and class work only)

ONLINE HELP:
Do "man insight" to learn about the
IRIS InSight Online Documentation (Book) Viewer.
-- The following books (published by Addison-Wesley) are available from the InSight Viewer:

OpenGL Reference Manual
OpenGL Programming Guide

-- The Technical Publication Library from SGI is on the web, http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/
-- Click here for more OpenGL references

SYSTEM INFORMATION:
-- the commands "uname" and "hinv" will tell you more about the workstation OS and hardware, respectively.

SYSTEM PROBLEMS:

You could send system bugs to commen@scivis.nyu.edu. But this is NOT a general help (you cannot send questions about how to use the machines, for instance). Use this sparingly. I prefer that you send me (yap@nyu.edu) emails for non-emergencies.

SOFTWARE, LIBRARIES, etc:
-- There are various visualization software (a list can be found in the web page of SCIVIS).
-- The OpenGL library is found under /usr/share/src/OpenGL/. -- For information on the GLUT extension, look under /usr/share/src/GLUT: lot of examples
/usr/share/GLUT: two documents about GLUT.