Minnesota Supercomputer Institute

Biomedical Modeling, Simulation, and Design Laboratory Techical Information

Technical information specific to the lab.

Getting Started

Users with a valid account can login, either locally or remotely, to any of the BMSDL workstations. For security reasons, rlogin, rsh, and telnet are not allowed. Please use ssh instead.

Printing

BMSDL facility has two printers:

All users are strongly encouraged to use the BSD scheme for all printing needs. In this priniting scheme, the following commands are used:

lpr submit a job to a printer
lpq request a status of a submitted job
lprm remove a submitted job

Unless otherwise specified, all the above commands assume a default printer. Default printer vwl-hp1 is set in the system-wide initialization file by setting environment variable PRINTER to value vwl-hp1. However, this can be overriden by supplying printer name on command line using -P option:

lpr -Pprintername myfile.ps

This command will send file myfile.ps to the printer printername.