CIP-Pool

The Cip-Pool in the Argelander Institute for Astronomy

The CIP-Pool was build in 2006 and contains 18 Terminals/PCs and a teacher Termianl/PC which is connected to a beamer for instructions. In 2006 simple terminals were bought which were connected to three main linux servers. This was necessary to reduce the heat and noise coming from 19 PCs. Since these terminals were quite too slow for most of the interactive graphic programs new small PCs were bought in 2012. At the moment we are using Ubuntu 12.04 as the main OS. Before the winter term 2013 (WS 2013/14) started the account system was switched from the local accounts to the university accounts (University-IDs). The home directories are now located in the main computing center (HRZ). Also the Physics CIP-Pool and the Astronomy CIP-Pool are homogenized to be more flexible for lectures (e.g. EDV für Physiker). In 2017 new PCs were installed which provides more memory and CPU power. The old projector in the pool was also replaced and provides a better image quality and modern connectors for laptops.

Location / Opening hours

The CIP-Pool is located on the ground-floor of the Argelander Institute of Astronomy in the room 0.007. 

Since the room is mainly used for bachelor/master lectures there is NO free access during the week. This may change in the future.

The physics department supports also its own CIP-Pool in the AVZ I. In this pool there are 16 PCs which are also available from external computers 24h/7d. For firther information see http://www.pi.uni-bonn.de/lehre/cip-pool

Login/logout at the Cip-Pool

  1. Switch on the monitor and PC (check if it already running)
  2. If you switched on the PC wait until the login screen appears on the screen
  3. Enter your username; the username is your University-ID (without @uni-bonn.de!)
  4. The default session for EDV für Physiker-Users is "xfce"
  5. Enter your password
  6. Do some useful work!
  7. Choose logout from the main menu
  8. Switch off the monitor

In the case of problems ask the tutor for help.

Login from external computer

We provide logins from external computers. You can use the computer cipserv1.astro.uni-bonn.de to login into the CIP-Pool. Please don't start any programs on this computer but login directly to one of the CIP-POOL computer zXX.cip-astro.uni-bonn.de (XX=01-18). The computers may be offline, in that case try to use a different one.  Since the user data are located in the main computing center you can also use the computer in the Physics CIP-Pool which are online 24h/7d (http://www.pi.uni-bonn.de//lehre/cip-pool). The PCs are:cipXX.physik.uni-bonn.de (XX=01..16).

Software

The software collection includes the standard software which come with the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS distribution. Additionally extra software is installed or partly upgraded. For a detail information which packages are installed use the command dpkg -l . If you need special software or libraries please contact your tutors or use the contact email address.

Contact

The CIP-Pool is maintained by the central IT-group (ZRG) of the AIfA. If you have problems or want to book the room for lectures, please contact us via ticket@astro.uni-bonn.de. Helpful is also the web page from the Physics CIP-Pool: http://www.pi.uni-bonn.de//lehre/cip-pool !

(2017-12-06)