2016 NCSU Computer Science Graduate Student Orientation NCSU and Computer Science Carlos Benavente –

NCSU IT groups - WHO IS WHO?

NCSU IT Groups - Who is Who? CSC IT – Computer Science IT: (EB2 ITECS – College of Engineering IT: OIT – NCSU Office of Information Technology: For “personal” computing support: –OIT’s West Dunn HelpDesk Walk-in –ITECS Centennial HelpDesk 1002 Engineering Building I; If you don’t the correct group, it may take a few days before someone gets to you

Reporting Issues Read logs and manuals first When submitting Help tickets: –Use your university account: –Personal or Departmental-owned computer? –Physical location –Computer Number/TAG –What OS –Error Messages –Things you have tried “My Computer Doesn’t Work” Is not very helpful

RULES AND POLICIES

RULES/POLICIES Antivirus & Malware: ALL computers on the NCSU network MUST have it ( OS security patches: Apply/schedule them regularly Local OS Firewalls: Enable them! NCSU network is open and no excuses to stay vulnerable User Authentication: force users to authenticate/login HD encryption: enable it if necessary Keep centrally-managed computers ON OS Installation: contact for installation/distribution of licensed OS and/or consultation about centrally-managed vs stand-alone

RULES/POLICIES (continuation) DO NOT transfer a department-owned computer that was assigned to you to another student or group without prior consultation/notification with CSC IT and Engaged in a project that deals with sensitive data (purple, red, yellow) or “potentially concerning” malware/cybersecurity project? CONTACT US at to assist with identifying and implementing security controls. What the heck does PURPLE, RED, YELLOW mean? Check: framework/determining-sensitivity-levels-for-shared-data/

RULES/POLICIES (continuation) Clickwrap Agreements: Do not install software on department equipment that requires you to click “I AGREE” before installing it! Check clickwrap approved list 1 st at Unnecessary services: Do not install: Web/FTP services or P2P applications on your RA/TA workstation. DO NOT store sensitive data on non-approved cloud services. Visit NCSU monitors network

RULES/POLICIES (continuation) PHISHING: Don’t feed the PHISH! –NCSU will never ask you to provide your password. Dual Boot: Not allowed on departmental desktops No Piracy: software, music, videos, movies… All violators will be reported to Dean of Students. All TAs/RAs will have their Advisors notified. The DGP is made aware of all infractions Violations of usage policies will result in appropriate disciplinary action up to dismissal from the program.

RULES/POLICIES (continuation) University Computer Use Regulation:

The BASICS – Computing Account & File Space/Storage

University Computing Accounts Unity Account or Unity ID –It is a unique ID. Example: cabenave –Unity Password – change it regularly! Address: (example: Student ID # or Campus ID # –The one with leading zeroes.

University File System/Storage AFS: Andrew File System (distributed file system) –2GB –/afs/unity/users/a-z/UnityID/ –/afs/unity/users/a-z/UnityID/www/ (www4 Web tool to setup this) Only HTML supported NCSU-Drive: 5GB SMB, CIFS connection –Google Drive: Unlimited

Additional File Storage Through Engineering Personal file space (per request basis only): –To request: –2GB –Non-Web path: /afs/eos/lockers/people/a- z/UnityID/private –Web path: /afs/eos/lockers/people/a-z/UnityID/www –Web address: PHP enabled MySQL services if needed Research Group file space (per request basis only): Faculty/advisor can request more file share space for Web and Non-Web via :

How do I get to AFS? Access to AFS is possible from centrally managed machines (Realm RedHat, Windows AD, Mac OS X Casper) available in labs and remote servers Third party clients: –Putty, WinSCP, ExpanDrive, or other FTP client that supports SFTP Protocol. Available remote hosts to connect to AFS: –remote.eos.ncsu.edu: COE “shared” remote servers not intended to run multiple jobs –ftp.ncsu.edu (SFTP only)ftp.ncsu.edu

The Cloud, Software, Services

Cloud Solutions Google NC STATE –Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Talk, Sites, –YouTube, Photos (formerly Picasa), Maps, Google+. 2-Step Verification is Unlimited Drive storage To see storage usage:

Cloud Services AWS Educate: IBM Student Initiative: (IBM BlueMix) github.ncsu.edu – available to students and faculty VCL: NCSU Virtual Computing Lab An On-demand remote access service to reserve a computer with a desired set of applications for yourself.

Software Kaspersky (NCSU) - More software available at Examples: –MatLab Student Version, –WinSCP, ExpanDrive (COE), –CISCO AnyConnect client for vpn (NCSU) Microsoft Imagine (formerly DreamSpark – available to CSC enrolled students: –Download for free: Visual Studio,.NET Framework, Visio, Project, Win OS

Software (Continuation) VMWare Academic Program (VMAP) – available to CSC enrolled students: –Download for free: Fusion, Workstation MS Office 365 – free for students, faculty, & staff Adobe Creative Cloud: Site license to be used on university owned computers (for faculty, staff, and lab use).

Services (continuation) remote.eos.ncsu.edu has various compilers and applications such us java, fortran, python, MatLab Velocity – : file transfer service for large fileshttps://velocity.ncsu.edu svn.csc.ncsu.edu: Subversion server for CSC faculty & students. Faculty must submit request. Also available to external users who collaborate with NCSU faculty/researchers. Virtualization: CSC IT maintains a virtualization cluster for researchers and instructors who do not have the hardware and system administration knowledge.

Services (continuation) High Performance Computing (HPC): –Cluster resources to support research & instruction –recommended for long running jobs (e.g 100+ cores for up to 48 hours) –Advisor/Faculty creates a project with HPC –Advisor/Faculty grants students access Other CSC Specific Resources: –Faculty-owned servers for research and teaching; –contact your faculty and advisor –Many hosted in CSC server rooms, –Also in VCL

PRINTING

Printing Department does NOT support personal or coursework printing For personal or coursework printing use WolfPrint: Printing on CSC printers: –Contact your faculty or advisor.

COMPUTER LABS

Computer Labs College of Engineering Labs (EOS Labs) – Computer Science “Teaching” Labs –EB2 1221, EB2 2236, Daniels 200, Daniels 201, Daniels 255 Computer Science Public Labs –EB VCL (Virtual Computing Lab)

NETWORKING

Networking Wireless –Three main SSIDs Eduroam (secured), NCSU, and NCSU-guest (web only) Eduroam (education roaming) –Free & encrypted wireless service –Uses certificate enrollment –Certificate will allow you to securely connect both on NCSU campus and participating institutions worldwide – NCSU SSID - register your device via nomad.ncsu.edu Wired – CSC registers only university/department owned computers on the wired network.

MAILING LISTS

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