Sun Software

 

Background Information

 

What is the Engineering Sun Network?

The College of Engineering Network is a local area network consisting of more than 100 Sun workstations and servers running the Solaris (unix) operating system. Each Sun workstation has access to more than 100 Gigabytes worth of applications and also accesses your home directory storage. We maintain versions of many applications for the Sun workstations.

"Does anyone still use the Suns?" Yes! But many who do never sit in front of one. Some advantages of the Engineering Sun network:

  • Computers can be accessed remotely - on or off campus. Not all off-campus access requires a high speed connection.
  • All available software packages are available from anywhere. You don't have to install them and they are all licensed to run on any Engineering Sun workstation.
  • There is a huge collection of software available and many software packages. These programs are primarily engineering, computational and programming, but you can see the complete listing in the Engineering Software Database

Many of the programs available in Engineering are available in Mac, Linux and Solaris versions. The Solaris and Linux platforms will continue to allow our users to remotely access software for their coursework and research.

You can use the software on any of the Engineering Sun workstations without sitting down at one of the workstations.  These workstations may be accessed from your PC in the Engineering PC labs, from all Engineering offices, from other offices on campus and even from off campus.

Do I need special software to get remote access?

You need to install SecureCRT and Xwin32 on your PC (these are already installed in Engineering PC labs) to start a login session on one of the Engineering Sun workstations.  (see Off Campus Access).