Support

This section is designed to facilitate your use of the CCB. The Discussion Forum (Moodle) site contains an active discussion of questions and answers aimed at advancing biomechanics modeling. This site serves as a reference of others FAQs and an environment for learning more about the CCB and specific software for biomechanics modeling.

You must be given a login ID from the system administrator. If you would like to request one please e-mail the systems administrator (uwccb@u.washington.edu).

At your first login, please change your password as you are responsible for your profile.

The CCB runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux which is your initial login. Your unique profile within Linux will be saved on the server and accessible from any of the workstations in the center. Within the Linux environment, you can use Windows through a hardware emulation (VMware). Within the hardware emulation, Windows is able to run all applications as would be available on a native system.

The Windows environment is machine specific and thus is the same for everyone in the class. Please do NOT customize the Windows environment.

Within your profile, you can save data in your HOME folder and this data will be present there on whatever workstation you access. This data is secure and on a raid system; however, it is your responsibility to have a backup of your files.

Backup of your files can be done by saving to a USB Drive, Burning them to a CD/DVD, or saving them to your UW network account.

USB DRIVE - Our current kernel supports FAT formatted USB flash drive. Insert USB Drives in Linux without Windows running for best performance. The drive will mount in Linux, be available in Linux on the desktop and also be available in Windows within the "USB Drives" shortcut on the desktop. When you are finished, you can shutdown Windows without doing anything and then unmount the drive before logging out of Linux. To unmount, please right click your drive and select Unmount.

UW NETWORK ACCOUNT ACCESS - Within the Linux Terminal, the following code can be used to access your account:

sftp <username>@<server>

ls (list)

cd (change directory)

put filename (put onto server)

get filename (get from server)

? (command summary)

quit (logout and disconnects)

RUNNING LONG TASKS IN THE BACKGROUND

As this Center develops, we ask initially that you let the system administrator know if you will be running large batch files. These can easily be run in the background so that others can work as well while your job is finishing. The Moodle Discussion Forum has more information on running large files in the background from a technical perspective.