Comp Server: Overview
Comp is a Unix server available to all UARK users for personal websites as well as academic and research computing. To log into Comp, use your UARK username and password. Find out more at Personal Websites and Research Data Services.
UARK users have a Comp quota of 300 MB (which is separate from your email quota).
Access
Comp can be accessed through SSH, SFTP, Web & Apps, and a mapped drive (SMB).
Software
Software on Comp includes Pine (email client), statistical software, MATLAB, Lynx (text web browser), and text editors including Pico, VI Editor, uni-XEDIT, and compilers. Programming languages on Comp include C, C++, FORTRAN, Java, PHP, Python, and Perl.
For help on different topics on the Comp server, see the Unix manual pages:
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SSH into Comp and at the prompt, type man keyword where "keyword" is the actual name of a program, command, or keyword.
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Use the spacebar to advance through the manual pages.
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Comments
04/05/2012
2:27 pm
The MATLAB version on this is 7.4 I am pretty sure we have a newer version on vlab.. Could this be updated?
04/06/2012
2:30 pm
No, I'm afraid that we can't update the Comp installation of MATLAB to the same version as we have on VLab. In 2009, Mathworks stopped making versions of MATLAB that run on Solaris (which is the operating system Comp uses.)
02/09/2011
10:18 pm
You might recommend using Swish ( http://www.swish-sftp.org/ ) to access SFTP using Windows. As a Linux user, I recommended it for my fellow students in my Enterprise Servers class last semester - it's a very useful piece of software.
Andrew Summers