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Computational Laboratory of ME Department
The COMPUTATIONAL LABORATORY (ME 302-A) is at the second floor of the Mechanical Engineering Department building. The computational laboratory hosts all the departmental servers - computational servers, mail server, web server, Intransa storage system.

Servers
Seven servers are presently maintained in computational laboratory. All the servers are located in the system-administrator's room within computational laboratory.
AGNI
This is a UNIX based SUN Solaris (SunOS 5.9) server and serves as the main Computation Server for the department. All the software licensed either to IIT Bombay or to Mechanical Engineering Department is available on this server.

Configuration of AGNI Server: Sun Server V880, Sparc III processor (1200 MHz X 4), 16GB RAM.

Softwares available on this server include:
MATLAB 6.5, FORTRAN, C, ADAMS 2003, Tecplot 8.0.

IP Address: 10.110.1.4
EPSILON
This is a Intel P4 machine (OS:Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3)and serves the department MAIL server.

Softwares on EPSILON: qmail.

IP Address: 10.110.1.1
YANTRA
This is a LINUX based server (Fedora Core 3) and serves as the departmental WEB-SERVER. Yantra is also the PROXY-SERVER of the department.

Softwares available on YANTRA include: Apache + PHP, MySQL Database.

IP Address: 10.110.1.11
SHASHI
This is a UNIX based SUN server (SunOS 5.8) and serves as the LICENSE server for all the softwares available on the other servers.

IP Address: 10.110.1.2
BHANU
This is a UNIX based SUN server (SUNOS 5.9) and serves as the LICENSE server for Fluent/Gambit Software.

IP Address: 10.110.1.3
NILESH
This is a Linux (OS:Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3) based, Pentium III server. This is also a computation server.

Software available on NILESH Server is: Abaqus,Ansys60,Matlab6.5

IP Address: 10.110.1.5

INTRANSA storcontrol System

This is a storage control system, serves as the data backup system for the department servers. Everyday users data from Me servers are stored on this system.

Configuration of Intransa StorControl System: SC5500 Storage Controller, Storage Unit HDD(250GB X 16), Dell Powerconnect switch.
IP Address: 10.110.4.4

Clients
Computational laboratory hosts 10 SUN computers and 31 INTEL (Pentium IV and Pentium III) computers as client machines for regular use.

All the 10 SUN computers are located in a smaller bay (marked as Educational Laboratory) inside the computational laboratory. This room is sometimes booked / reserved for certain laboratory classes with advance notice. Out of 10 SUN computers - all are SUN workstations. All of these client machines can be connected to any UNIX Server. To work in any of these client machines, one needs first to login to any UNIX server or LINUX server.

In the larger room inside the computational laboratory, 31 INTEL PCs are located. Some of these have dual-boot provisions - i.e. both the LINUX booting and WIN-2000 booting facility. In WIN-2000 mode, one needs the login and password in the WIN-2000 server to work in any of these machines. Similarly, in LINUX mode, one needs the login and password in the LINUX server to work in any of these machines. Two machines have Fedora Core 1 installed on them.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SWITCH ON OR SHUT DOWN ANY CLIENT MACHINE, PLEASE ASK SOMEBODY OR LEARN IT. ANY IMPROPER ATTEMPT TO DO THE SAME CAN CAUSE IMMENSE DAMAGE FOR THE ENTIRE SYSTEM AND HENCE FOR YOU AS WELL.





Using SSH to access mail on Epsilon



'Telnet' has been disabled on the mail server (epsilon - 10.110.1.1). So now to access mail you will have to use 'ssh' instead of 'telnet'.

For Linux users:

Goto the command prompt (i.e the terminal) and type the following command:

ssh your-user-name@10.110.1.1

Please replace 'your-user-name' with your login-id on epsilon. You will next be prompted for password. Enter it and continue with 'pine' as usual.

For Windows users:

Download the SSH-Client (SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.3.exe) or Putty utility (putty.exe) from ftp://ftp.iitb.ac.in/IITB/windows/ssh and install it. Just run the .exe file to install it. Then launch the program (SSH or Putty) either from the 'Desktop' or 'Programs'. For 'SSH-client' choose 'Quick Connect' from the 'File' menu. Enter the following settings:

'Host Name' : 10.110.1.1
'User Name' : your login id
'Port Number' : 22
'Authentication Method': Password



Commands to run softwares.


Matlab 6.5matlab
Ansys 6tansys60
Ansys 7tansys70
Fluent 6.1fluent
Fluent 6.2/pkgs/fluent6.2/Fluent.Inc/bin/fluent 3d -64
Gambit 2.0.4gambit
Gambit 2.3/pkgs/gambit2.3/Fluent.Inc/bin/gambit
Tecplot 10.0-6-014tecplot
Adams 2005adams05
Abaqusabaqus cae
C:gcc <prog-name>
CFX:cfx5

****NOTE****


The following environment variable has to be set for running 64bit version of Fluent
FLUENT_ARCH = ultra_64 export FLUENT_ARCH

****NOTE****


The following entries are needed in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file on client pc for running above gui based software:

  • ForwardX11Trusted yes
  • ForwardX11 yes


    How to setup your home-page.



    To setup your home-page, you need to:

  • Create a "public_html" directory in your home directory on AGNI server.

  • Remember to set the permissions of the "public_html" directory to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) ,and documents contained therein must be world-readable(i.e files should have permissions atleast -rw-r--r-- and directories should have permissions drwxr-xr-x ). Otherwise, the browser will only display a "403 Forbidden" message.

  • The following command when invoked from your home-directory will ensure this.
    1. chmod 755 public_html
    2. chmod -R a+r public_html
  • The index file can end in the extension ".html" or ".htm" or ".php". (i.e index.html OR index.htm OR index.php)
  • Some tutorials on HTML and PHP that you may find useful:
    1. HTML tutorial
    2. PHP tutorial.








    • Mail Aliases on Epsilon server
    Faculty : faculty[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Manufacturing mfgf[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Design desf[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Thermal and Fluids tfef[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Energy System facultyese[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    IEOR facultyieor[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    Students : students[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    Ph.D. phd[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    M.Tech. mtech[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    2011 Batch Aliases : mtech11-tfe[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		mtech11-tfe[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		 mtech11-nucl[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		 mtech11-des[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		 mtech11-manu[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		 mtech11-mmm[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		 phd11[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		 btech11[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		 dd11-cada[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		 dd11-cim[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    Batch of 2006 mtech06[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2007 mtech07[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2008 mtech08[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2009 mtech09[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2010 mtech10[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    DD dd[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2005 dd05[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2006 dd06[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2007 dd07[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2008 dd08[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2009 dd09[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2010 dd10[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    B.Tech. btech[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2005 btech05[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2006 btech06[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2007 btech07[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2008 btech08[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2009 btech09[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Batch of 2010 btech10[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    Alias for Manufacturing batch mtech(year)-mfg@me.iitb.ac.in; ( eg: mtech07-mfg@me.iitb.ac.in)
    Alias for Design batch mtech(year)-des@me.iitb.ac.in; ( eg: mtech07-des@me.iitb.ac.in)
    Alias for TFE batch mtech(year)-tfe@me.iitb.ac.in; ( eg: mtech07-tfe@me.iitb.ac.in)
    Alias for IEOR batch mtech(year)-ieor@me.iitb.ac.in; ( eg: mtech07-ieor@me.iitb.ac.in)
    Alias for Energy Systems batch mtech(year)-ese@me.iitb.ac.in; ( eg: mtech07-ese@me.iitb.ac.in)
    msc(year)-ese@me.iitb.ac.in; ( eg: msc07-ese@me.iitb.ac.in)
    RAs ra[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    Staff staff[AT]me.iitb.ac.in



    People
    Computational Lab In-charge - Prof. Atul Sharma

    		Email: atuls[AT]me.iitb.ac.in

    		Home Page

    Systems Manager- Mr. V.J Vandurkar

    		Email: vandurkar[AT]me.iitb.ac.in,   sysad[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Job: Management and Configuration of server systems:Agni(Sun Fire V880,License server(Sun Solaris),Intransa System.

    		Home Page

    System Administrator (Temp.)- Veena Vijayan

    		Email: veena[AT]me.iitb.ac.in
    Job: System and Network Administration.

    R A - Anjana Shankar

    		Email:anjana[AT]cse.iitb.ac.in


    		Aadarsha

    		Email:aadarsha[AT]iitb.ac.in


    		Arnab Ganguly

    		Email: aganguly[AT]iitb.ac.in


    		Hitesh Mazumbdar

    		Email: hitesh.mazumbdar[AT]iitb.ac.in


    		Pankaj Kumar

    		Email: pankajcse[AT]iitb.ac.in


    Mail Aliases on Epsilon server

    How to host your home page

    Commands to run softwares

    Servers

    Using SSH to access mail on Epsilon

    People

    Requirements For RA