No need to try to connect your laptop to the LSCE wire network, it will not work!

The best you can do is use the eduroam or guest wifi network, if your office is close enough to one of the access points.

Warning! You can't connect directly to the LSCE servers from the wifi network. If you need to do that, you will have to connect to a server outside LSCE first, and then back to LSCE

There is a lot of information available on the intranet, but you can only access it from a computer connected to the LSCE network: https://intranet.lsce.ipsl.fr/

Everything about the LSCE servers (and other software and hardware information): https://intranet.lsce.ipsl.fr/informatique/index.php

• Reading the mails with the webmail or Thunderbird
  • As soon as you have a LSCE e-mail address, make sure it is added to the clim or estimr mailing list
• Printers

Web site: http://www-saclay.cea.fr/index.php

You can only access it from the CEA network! This intranet is the place where you can get information about:

• CEA buses
• Security training registration

Everybody working for CLIM & ESTIMR gets a computer that can be connected to the LSCE network. Please take the time to read the instructions below, that may help make your life easier

Read the notes in Windows 7 notes, especially the Basic Windows 7 Configuration section

If an application requests administrator's rights to install something or make changes to the computer, and you are sur it's not a virus, use the .\adminuser account and the adminuser password you got when your computer was configured, or ask the system administrators.

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Depending on what you need to do:

• run a single command with the root access rights
  sudo command
• become root in a terminal
  sudo su -
• use the root password when a program asks for it. Be sure the programs has legitimate reasons to ask for the root password!

Sorry, you are on your own, but it's soooo easy to use, right?

There are lots of things you can do directly on your local Win7 or Linux desktop (displaying pdf, images, using a text editor, …), rather than directly on the servers. Never forget that your local desktop has access to the remote disks on the Linux servers.

Otherwise, use the appropriate Linux servers. The load balancing system will send you to the server that has currently the smallest load

• asterixN (ssh asterix, or ssh asterix.lscelb): use these servers for the usual day-to-day work (things that use less than 1 Gb, don't use 100% CPU for a long time)
• obelixN (ssh obelix, or ssh obelix.lscelb): use these servers for interactive processes that will need more ram and/or CPU during a longer time
• the batch system for really heavy duty programs

If the Linux server you are working on seems slow, or if you want to get an idea of the resources you are using, you should use the top command

jypeter@obelix4 - ...jypeter - 46 >top
top - 17:48:51 up 8 days, 23:43, 29 users,  load average: 1.22, 1.38, 1.98
Tasks: 324 total,   2 running, 320 sleeping,   2 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.6%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 87.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  32877756k total, 14706188k used, 18171568k free,    21372k buffers
Swap: 33554428k total,  1628972k used, 31925456k free, 14105940k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
10193 mpeau     20   0  302m 4336 2272 R 100.0  0.0   7033:08 emacs
16504 mpeau     20   0  110m 2008 1228 S  0.7  0.0   0:00.13 tcsh
26344 dzhu      20   0 1635m  20m 3880 S  0.3  0.1   0:44.90 ipython
    1 root      20   0 21448 1108  892 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.61 init
    [...]

The top lines give you some summary information about the system, but you should monitor the memory usage (VIRT and RES), CPU and TIME columns. By default, top will will put the processes using the more CPU at the top (as shown above). You can see above that the emacs text editor has clearly crashed, because it should not use 100% CPU for such a long time

If you type M, the processes will be sorted my memory usage, as shown below

      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
16092 jchang    20   0 8488m 8.1g 7912 R 99.6 25.9   1:41.38 idl
23256 pvait     20   0  232m  70m 2632 S  0.0  0.2   0:01.36 R
26344 dzhu      20   0 1635m  20m 3880 S  0.0  0.1   0:44.87 ipython
10619 astege    20   0  954m 9292 2664 S  0.0  0.0   0:40.67 gedit
 1362 nslcd     20   0  442m 6056 2208 S  0.0  0.0   2:13.98 nslcd
16238 twang     20   0  128m 5068 2076 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.05 gconfd-2
10193 mpeau     20   0  302m 4336 2272 R 99.9  0.0   7024:13 emacs
    [...]

Other useful keys:

Send a mail to: help-lsce@lsce.ipsl.fr

The only way to access LSCE the LSCE server is to connect first to the idefix1.extra.cea.fr gateway server. Unless you are on a machine that is outside LSCE, but still on the CEA network (e.g. one of the machines of the CEA computing center)

1. Send a mail to help-lsce@lsce.ipsl.fr and request an access to the idefix1 server
2. Use ssh to connect to idefix1
   1. ssh

Ask you advisor, who has probably already told you everything that was listed above, so you did not really learn anything new by reading this page

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