Department of Computing | Imperial College London |
Project resources |
If you are a final year student starting your individual or group project and you think you might need additional computing resources to complete your project, please mail full details to us after noting these points:
There are no workstations dedicated for project use in the teaching labs. They are all general access. Any student asking us to take a workstation out of general use for their use only will have to provide a very detailed justification supported by their project supervisor.
If group projects require shared workspace we set up a directory on the server which can be accessed from the Windows and Linux systems. Exact details of the directory location are mailed to the students. This page provides further general information.
/vol/project/2000/group#
To make this easier to access, you could create a symbolic link in your home directory, eg:
ln -s /vol/project/2000/group# project
On the Windows systems it will be something similar to this:
\\fs-vol\project\2000\group#
If you map a network drive to this use a letter after H: Letters before H: may conflict with hardware on some systems.
There are some notes on remote file transfer.
groups
if you want to check).
You can use the group permissions on files so that they can be shared
between members of your group without making them accessible to other
users. See the Unix commands
chgrp
and
chmod
,
or see our introductory guide.
These groups also apply when you access your project directory from the PCs.
You might also want to use the Revision Control System or CVS when updating your files.
If the project requires web pages a subdirectory "public_html" may have been created inside your project directory. Once you have created an index.html and made it readable by all, you can find it on the web by opening a URL similar to the following (modify the text in italics according to the details in the email sent to you):
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/project/2000/group#/public_html/
Or:
If you want a less long-winded URL you could create a symbolic link in the public_html directory in your own account, eg.:
cd ~/public_html ln -s /vol/project/2000/group# project
equals:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~username/project
If you haven't created your own web pages yet...
If you want to run CGI scripts from your group project area please read the notes on CGI first.
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