Linux Application Servers

apps0.cs and apps1.cs are application servers.

These are the machines on which users should run such programs as: web browsers, mail clients, newsreaders, X window managers, text editors/word processors, and miscellaneous applications such as clocks, calendars, and so on.

Large processing jobs should not be run on the application servers, but should instead be run on a compute server. Jobs that are using excessive computing resources on application servers may be killed by CSLab staff to improve the performance of users that depend on these machines for their desktop environment.

Your home directory on the application servers (and all other servers) is in a pool of space that's shared with other people. Please see Understanding Disk Space at CSLab for more.

If a desired (but not installed) package is available as part of our current Ubuntu LTS, contact your Point of Contact (PoC) and have them put in a request that it be added to core software. Although there are special circumstances that may mean some packages can't be installed, most packages can be installed on request.

With respect to software that is neither available via the OS distribution-provided package list nor in /opt, you or your Point of Contact (PoC) can install programs in your home directory or a suitable work partition for use on these servers, so long as the programs do not require Administrator/root privileges to install or run.