The IT Department offers students and staff access to the unix-system for study, teaching and scientific research. Services are free of charge for those who have either student or staff status at the University of Helsinki.
New students can get the user identifier without any application.
After registration they can activate the user identifier at computing station user activation desks. In most applications there are no differences between the servers . The unix-system is used via network. For the reasons of efficency it is recommended, that the users should login to the vesuri . All the servers contain the same programs with some exceptions.