The Computing Service's list of Unix system manufacturers. The following are some suppliers with whom people in the Department have dealt recently. Suggestions for additions to the list are welcome. It will be assumed that research students and staff have read about Access to the System for Non-Teaching Use and the disciplinary procedures therein. Overnight the Teaching System machines run batch jobs.
Undergraduates have priority, but surplus capacity is often available.
Read the Optimisation and Long Jobs document first. It is possible for well-maintained machines to have their user files mounted on the teaching system so that users can have the same home directory whether they're using a research or Teaching system.